lance-tipped darner at Fish Farm Mounds State Preserve IA 854A1737

This large and colorful dragonfly has several close cousins in the darner family. Their thoracic stripes are often key to ID. On this one, its front thoracic stripe constricts a wee bit at the center. These dragonflies are ferocious predators and like to attack small moths such as the spear-marked black.

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