Aeshna grandis (Brown Hawker)

It’s not easy to confuse this big feller with anything else, being obviously mainly brown in colour.

Id Notes

  • Large, mainly brown body (both sexes)
  • Tobacco-tinted wings (both sexes), the colour visible in flight
  • Pair of prominent yellow stripes on sides of thorax (both sexes)
male ovipositing

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