Flight season: late May to mid-July.
Population: common at heavily vegetated still or slow-flowing waters. Also recorded at a marsh along Marlbank Road (east of VanderWey Ct.),
east of Eldorado near Brownson Road, and one male was observed wandering a fair distance from water, perching on shrubs at the edge of a parking lot in downtown Tweed.
Length: about 35 mm. The yellow patches on the sides of the thorax, pattern on the upper thorax and lack of shoulder stripes are unique.
This damselfly often perches with its wings held partially open in the manner of Spreadwings.
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Vanderwater Conservation Area:
Moira River, rock-bottomed with fast flowing water, rapids and emergent rocks, but also quiet pools and backwaters.
The shoreline vegetation consists of wooded areas and clearings supporting tall grasses and wildflowers.
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Male Aurora Damsel (Chromagrion conditum)
June 15, 2014
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Tweed, Ontario, about ½ km west of town, a marsh bordering the trans-Canada Trail:
typical marsh local with Cattails and other emergent vegetation, with some Tamarack and various small willows, alders and dogwood.
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Teneral female Aurora Damsel (Chromagrion conditum)
May 21, 2011
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North of Tweed, near 862 French Settlement Road:
a small slow flowing stream, heavily vegetated with both aquatic and emergent plant species along the shorelines.
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Female Aurora Damsel (Chromagrion conditum)
June 21, 2014
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Stoco Fen, east of Tweed on East Hungerford Road:
relatively little open water compared to a marsh. Wetland supporting sedges, orchids, Bog Labrador Tea, Pitcher Plants and other fen indicator species, trees are mainly Tamarack and Eastern White Cedar.
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Aurora Damsel (Chromagrion conditum), tandem
May 29, 2016
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