Nature photographer Albert Lavallee has published a fascinating set of shots from Oklahoma, showing largemouths leaping to eat mating green
darners and black saddleback dragonflies, species endemic to that region.
Historically, invisible darns were preferred around the world; in India and Kashmir, professional
darners made repairs to treasured garments with threads carefully pulled from the seam allowances and hems.
They fly phantom-like through the night like the grey ghosts of thousands of weavers,
darners, packers, engineers, electricians, dyers, beamers, winders, designers, fork-lift truck drivers, sweepers-up and labourers.
Similarly bringing recognition to an overlooked community, in this case the rafoogars (
darners) of Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh, was Priya Ravish Mehra's Making the Invisible Visible, 2012/2017.
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Although some species emerge in full sunlight, for safety reasons, others like the big
darners emerge before sunrise.
The walls are packed full of rousing posters, such as 'Women of Britain Come Into The Factories',' shelves of tobacco tins and cabinets full of ration books,
darners and potato ricers.
GROUP B: Ahli Benghazi - 13;
Darners, Ittihad - 8; Olombi, Tahaddi - 6; Shatt - 5; Najma, Wehdah - 4
The dragonfly species composition in marshes primarily consisted of Libellulidae (skimmers), while Libellulidae, Aeshnidae (
darners), and Gomphidae (clubtails) were common in oxbows and sloughs.
Pages 165 to 517 comprise dragonlies, the Anisoptera, organized by families as follows: Petaltails,
Darners, Clubtails, Spiketails, Cruisers, Emeralds, and Skimmers.
Now
darners are few and far between these days so I thought I'd peruse t'internet to see how to fix the problem.
Virtually every dragonfly and damselfly you will ever see in Oregon is here somewhere, divided by type - petaltails, spiketails, cruisers,
darners, clubtails, emeralds, skimmers, broadwings, spreadwings and pond damsels - with descriptions and maps showing where they're most likely to be spotted and the likely months of the adult flight season.