Bug FAQSpringtime Darner
Basiaeschna janata · Order: Odonata · Family: Aeshnidae
Its presence in Alaska suggests the ancestral species moved from Eurasia to North America across Beringia.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
It is a bluish darner.
Source: Wikipedia
Size
It is a small darner.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it lives
It flies early in the year.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
Its occurrence in Alaska indicates a migration from Eurasia to North America via Beringia.
Source: Wikipedia
Lookalikes
Two fossil darner species formerly placed in this genus have been moved to the extinct genus †Oligaeschna.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 34 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Maine.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in Canada; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Aeshnidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basiaeschna
Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia
Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.