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Male Yellow-winged Darter (Sympetrum flaveolum), Finland
Yellow-winged Darter is one of the most common dragonflies in eastern Finland in late summer - early autumn. It's usually easy to identify because of the large yellow patches at the base of wings. This male carries a red mite which you can see at the base of the middle leg.
The yellow-winged darter, ''Sympetrum flaveolum'', is a dragonfly found in Europe and mid and Northern China. Breeding is confined to stagnant water, usually in peat bogs. Although not resident in the United Kingdom it occasionally migrates there in some numbers. Such 'Invasion Years' occurred in 1906, 1926, 1945, 1953, and 1995. On each occasion a small breeding colony appeared, but they have invariably died out after a few years.
An almost unmistakable darter, red-bodied in the male,.. more
