darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Ditchbanks Dead Fish Lake Fond du Lac State Forest Carlton Co MN IMG_8303
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Ditchbanks Dead Fish Lake Fond du Lac State Forest Carlton Co MN IMG_8298
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Ditchbanks Dead Fish Lake Fond du Lac State Forest Carlton Co MN IMG_8294
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Ditchbanks Dead Fish Lake Fond du Lac State Forest Carlton Co MN IMG_8288
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Ditchbanks Dead Fish Lake Fond du Lac State Forest Carlton Co MN IMG_8273
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Ditchbanks Dead Fish Lake Fond du Lac State Forest Carlton Co MN IMG_8252
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Ditchbanks Dead Fish Lake Fond du Lac State Forest Carlton Co MN IMG_8243
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Ditchbanks Dead Fish Lake Fond du Lac State Forest Carlton Co MN IMG_8231
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Ditchbanks Dead Fish Lake Fond du Lac State Forest Carlton Co MN IMG_8227
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Ditchbanks Dead Fish Lake Fond du Lac State Forest Carlton Co MN IMG_8225
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Lima Grade Superior National Forest Cook Co MN IMG_4538
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Lima Grade Superior National Forest Cook Co MN IMG_7716
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Lima Grade Superior National Forest Cook Co MN IMG_7715
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Lima Grade Superior National Forest Cook Co MN IMG_7713
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Lima Grade Superior National Forest Cook Co MN IMG_7708
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Lima Grade Superior National Forest Cook Co MN IMG_7705
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Lima Grade Superior National Forest Cook Co MN IMG_7698
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Lima Grade Superior National Forest Cook Co MN IMG_7694
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Lima Grade Superior National Forest Cook Co MN IMG_7681
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9172
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9165
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9147
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9139
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9134
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9128
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9126
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9123
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9114
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9108
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9102
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9092
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9088
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa male Stone Lake Road Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_9083
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_5505
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa Bog BioBlitz II Sax-Zim Bog MN IMG_5505
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa Hartley Field Duluth MN IMG_0025069
darner Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa Hartley Field Duluth MN IMG_0025047
Shady places are not the first place one thinks to look for dragonflies, but the Shadow Darner (Aeshna umbrosa)—as its name implies—hunts in shaded places, sometimes right until dusk [August 21; Skogstjarna, Wrenshall, Carlton County, Minnesota]