{"id":17009,"date":"2026-04-01T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=17009"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:38:21","slug":"brush-tipped-emerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/brush-tipped-emerald\/","title":{"rendered":"Brush-tipped Emerald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greetings, BugFans,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dragonflies!\u00a0But not soon enough!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quick and dirty dragonfly phenology (phenology \u2013 the study of Mother Nature\u2019s calendar.\u00a0Cliff notes version &#8211; things appear\/bloom\/disappear\/migrate in pretty much the same order every year, we just can\u2019t predict the start date). Common Green Darners lead the parade, their arrival from the south governed by temperature and by the same weather fronts that bring migratory birds north (coinciding, hopefully, with the emergence of some insect prey for both).\u00a0Migrating Variegated Meadowhawks show up in early May \u2013 or they don\u2019t.\u00a0The next tier, usually airborne by mid-May, includes Common Baskettails, Common Whitetails, Chalk-fronted Corporals, Four-spotted Skimmers, and the aptly-named Springtime Darners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brush-tipped Emeralds&nbsp;(<em>Somatochlora walshii<\/em>)&nbsp;are summer dragonflies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignleft uwm-c-img--left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/04\/emerald-cbn20-9rz-300x300.webp\" alt=\"Brush-tipped Emerald dragonfly in flight with iridescent green eyes and transparent wings\" class=\"wp-image-17011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/04\/emerald-cbn20-9rz-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/04\/emerald-cbn20-9rz-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/04\/emerald-cbn20-9rz.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re in the Emerald family (Corduliidae), represented in Wisconsin by the baskettails, shadowdragons, boghaunters, a couple of smaller emeralds (Racket-tailed and American), and thirteen members of the genus\u00a0<em>Somatochlora<\/em>, the Striped or Green-eyed Emeralds (<a href=\"https:\/\/wiatri.net\/inventory\/odonata\/\">Wisconsin Odonata Survey<\/a>). <em>Somatochlora<\/em>\u00a0comes from the Greek for \u201c<em>green body.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0Emeralds are called emeralds because in many species, the adults, especially the adult males, have emerald-green eyes.\u00a0The BugLady can testify that when you\u2019re walking down the trail with the sun at your back and you encounter an emerald that\u2019s flying toward you, the glow of those eyes is a religious experience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bugguide.net\/node\/view\/680153\/bgimage\">Dragonfly &#8211; Somatochlora walshii &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>!\u00a0The most famous emerald here in God\u2019s Country is the Federally Endangered Hine\u2019s Emerald <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/hines-emerald-dragonfly-the-backstory\/\">Hine\u2019s Emerald Dragonfly\u2014the Backstory \u2013 Field Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Striped emeralds are, as the Wisconsin Odonata Survey website points out<em>\u00a0\u201cuncommonly seen, but this may be largely due to their secretive nature.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0It goes on to say that \u201c<em>the medium-sized, dark brown striped emeralds have some pale markings on the thorax and abdomen, black legs, clear wings and brilliant green eyes. The thorax has a metallic bronze-green sheen and the abdomen is dark metallic black-green.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0While some species live in the South, many are dragonflies of the North country, even living above the treeline.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look for Brush-tipped Emeralds near bogs, fens, marshes, and lake outlets, near slow streams, and over meadows and at the edges of coniferous woods in Canada and across the northern tier of the US (though small populations are found at higher elevations in the Appalachians).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emerald species are hard to tell apart in flight, but male Brush-tipped Emeralds have, well, a brushy tip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bugguide.net\/node\/view\/185242\/bgimage\">Brush-tipped Emerald, male cerci and epiproct &#8211; Somatochlora walshii &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a> that can be imagined as it flies by \u2013 as Kurt Mead says in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Dragonflies of the North Woods<\/span>,\u00a0<em>&#8220;the whiskered tips of the male Brush-tipped&#8217;s abdominal appendages are unlike those of any other North American species&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>of\u00a0<em>Somatochlora<\/em>\u00a0\u201c (though the appendages of other species are not hairless)<em>.<\/em> If they sit still long enough, you can see that the metallic-green abdomen has pale yellow spots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1566444\/bgimage\">Brush-tipped Emerald &#8211; Somatochlora walshii &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a> that can help narrow down the identification.\u00a0Adult Brush-tipped Emeralds are about two inches long; males have short abdomens and females have proportionately longer abdomens than males.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignright uwm-c-img--right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/04\/emerald-brush-tppd21-8rz-300x215.webp\" alt=\"Brush-tipped Emerald dragonfly partially hidden on a vertical stem in wetland habitat\" class=\"wp-image-17012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/04\/emerald-brush-tppd21-8rz-300x215.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2026\/04\/emerald-brush-tppd21-8rz.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Males are strong flyers, patrolling territories by flying low (less than three feet off the ground) along the edges of cool-water wetlands, abdomen arched, putting on aerial displays, chasing rivals, and looking for females.\u00a0Females lack the kind of ovipositor that would allow them to insert eggs into a plant stem, so they locate an area with lots of floating-leaved and submerged aquatic plants and they fly slowly, close to the water\u2019s surface, dipping into or tapping it with the tip of their abdomen to release eggs (200 to 500 in all).\u00a0When the eggs hatch, the naiads hide in the vegetation. They sometimes oviposit into muck or wet moss.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BugLady got some Hail Mary shots of a female Brush-tipped Emerald (probably) who was considering a small lake inlet for ovipositing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adults hawk small, soft-bodied, easy-to-eat insects from the air (including mosquitoes) and consume them in flight.\u00a0Females fly above small woody clearings and along roads and trails.\u00a0They may forage for food away from water, but they remain attached to their natal wetland.\u00a0The naiads ambush any aquatic critters they can, including tiny tadpoles and fish, and they\u2019re preyed on by bigger aquatic insects, fish, and frogs.\u00a0Spiders and birds catch the adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The BugLady<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-post_tag wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/brush-tipped-emearld\/\" rel=\"tag\">Brush Tipped Emearld<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/bug\/\" rel=\"tag\">Bug<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/dragonfly\/\" rel=\"tag\">dragonfly<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/emearld-dragon\/\" rel=\"tag\">Emearld Dragon<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/tag\/green-eye-dragonfly\/\" rel=\"tag\">Green Eye DragonFly<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, BugFans, Dragonflies!\u00a0But not soon enough!\u00a0 Quick and dirty dragonfly phenology (phenology \u2013 the study of Mother Nature\u2019s calendar.\u00a0Cliff notes version &#8211; things appear\/bloom\/disappear\/migrate in pretty much the same order every year, we just can\u2019t predict the start date). 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