Dragonflies of the World Trivia Questions
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This golden species makes the longest migration of any insect, crossing the Indian Ocean between generations, and has reached almost every warm coast on earth.
Difficulty: Hard
- Wandering Glider
- Rufous Marsh Glider
- Crimson Marsh Glider
- Spot-winged Glider
This small pond dragonfly of North America has a powdery azure body, a striped thorax and a startling emerald face.
Difficulty: Medium
- Needham's Skimmer
- Blue Dasher
- Sedge Darner
- Eastern Pondhawk
This is the largest North American member of its family, big enough to hunt other dragonflies and butterflies, which it does habitually.
Difficulty: Hard
- Dragonhunter
- Unicorn Clubtail
- Common Clubtail
- Cobra Clubtail
This ash-coloured North American species belongs to a lineage older than the dinosaurs, breeds in forest seepage rather than open water, and habitually lands on people.
Difficulty: Hard
- Gray Petaltail
- Giant Petaltail
- Dragonhunter
- Black Petaltail
This large North American migrant has an unmarked apple-coloured thorax, a bullseye mark on the forehead and a violet-blue abdomen in the male.
Difficulty: Medium
- Brown Hawker
- Norfolk Hawker
- Blue Emperor
- Common Green Darner
This European species has a powdery azure abdomen tipped with dark rings and basks flat on bare ground and paths.
Difficulty: Hard
- Keeled Skimmer
- Indigo Dropwing
- Black-tailed Skimmer
- Eastern Pondhawk
This large European species is instantly recognisable in flight because its wings are washed a warm amber throughout.
Difficulty: Hard
- Brown Hawker
- Swamp Darner
- Norfolk Hawker
- Lesser Emperor
This North American male has a stubby chalk-white abdomen and a single broad dark band across each wing, which he flashes at rivals like a signal flag.
Difficulty: Medium
- Common Whitetail
- Western Pondhawk
- Twelve-spotted Skimmer
- Eight-spotted Skimmer
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