Brown hawker
The brown hawker is a big dragonfly with a brown body and golden brown wings. It has thin yellow stripes on its chest. It likes to hunt along forest paths, even late on summer evenings.
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Fun facts
Its wings are tinted brown, which is unusual for a dragonfly and makes it easy to spot.
Its babies, called nymphs, live under water and grow to about 4 to 4.5 centimetres long.
It lays its eggs in floating plants or old wood in ponds and slow water.
It usually does not hunt over the water but flies along paths in the woods instead.
Carl Linnaeus described it back in 1758.
Most asked questions about Brown hawker
?How big is the brown hawker?
It is a large dragonfly, about 7 centimetres long.
?Is the brown hawker dangerous?
No. It has no sting and is harmless to people.
?When can you see a brown hawker?
Mostly from May to September.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aeshna grandis
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Aeshnidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Aeshnidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Brown hawker (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Darkone ( talk · contribs ). CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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