Aeshna subarctica
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Aeshna subarctica, the subarctic darner or bog hawker, is a species of dragonfly belonging to the family Aeshnidae, the darners and hawkers. This holarctic dragonfly is found in Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China) and North America.
Aeshna subarctica was first formally described in 1908 by the Canadian entomologist Edmund Murton Walker with its type locality given as Nipigon, Ontario. This species is classified in the genus Aeshna in the family Aeshnidae, the hawkers, in the order Odonata, the dragonflies and damselflies.
The Eurasian subspecies is found in the northern parts of Europe and Asia from most of Fennoscandia to the Bering Strait, as well as the Baltic states, Poland, northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. To the south of the main range... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Bear Rainforest | 🇨🇦 Canada |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Subarctic Darner sighting in Great Bear Rainforest on a given day, based on 21 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 111th most-seen of the 235 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Subarctic Darner in Great Bear Rainforest on a given day, against under 5% in October to July, the lowest months.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Subarctic Darner sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Great Bear Rainforest, in our data
Great Bear Rainforest is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Subarctic Darner sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Aeshna
The closest relatives of the Subarctic Darner that you can see in Great Bear Rainforest (genus Aeshna, Hawkers and Typical Darners) are Paddle-Tailed Darner (about 10%), Zigzag Darner (about 10%) and Lake Darner (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Subarctic Darner is recorded against all the insects logged in Great Bear Rainforest (21 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
