{"id":16472,"date":"2025-09-03T10:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=16472"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:09:56","slug":"spot-winged-glider-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/spot-winged-glider-dragonfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Spot-winged Glider Dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Howdy, BugFans,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has been a paucity of dragonflies and damselflies on the BugLady\u2019s landscapes this season (and they\u2019re urgently needed to eat mosquitoes\u00a0<em>right now<\/em>).\u00a0She has, though, seen more Gliders than usual this summer (or maybe she\u2019s finally developed an eye for IDing them in flight). Compared to darners, they are compact and bullet-shaped, with (mostly) undecorated wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spot-winged Gliders (<em>Pantala hymenaea<\/em>) (family Libellulidae) are one of two species in the world that are in the Rainpool glider genus\u00a0<em>Pantala<\/em>. The other, the Wandering Glider, aka the Globe Skimmer or the Globe Wanderer, is a world traveler, but the Spot-winged Glider is only found in the Americas \u2013 North, Central, and South.\u00a0In North America, they\u2019re dragonflies of open areas with shallow and\/or temporary waters from the Great Plains, east, along with a sprinkling of western states. According to the Wisconsin Odonata Survey (<a href=\"https:\/\/wiatri.net\/inventory\/odonata\/\">Wisconsin Odonata Survey<\/a>) (a great source\u00a0of information), \u201c<em>It is infrequently seen at scattered locations throughout Wisconsin<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wandering Gliders are golden <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1619106\/bgimage\">Pantala flavescens? &#8211; Pantala flavescens &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>, and Spot-winged Gliders are gray\/tan-to-reddish in color and more distinctly patterned, and although they are small, the spots that give them their name are visible in flight, especially when the dragonfly is circling overhead (which they often do, because they seem to be curious about us).\u00a0They\u2019re about 2\u201d in length, with long, broad wings designed for sustained flight <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/64312\/bgimage\">Spot-Winged Glider??? &#8211; Pantala hymenaea &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of all the places where dragonflies deposit their eggs \u2013 ponds, lakes, ephemeral ponds, quiet bays in rivers, etc. \u2013 rainpool gliders pick the most transient, fish-free waters, including garden water features and rain puddles (hence their name), and sometimes they mistake the shiny hood of a car for water and lob some eggs down onto it!\u00a0The adults are constantly on the move, looking for favorable spots to oviposit.\u00a0Their naiads develop quickly, in just weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignleft uwm-c-img--left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/09\/glider-spt-wngd16-1b-300x215.webp\" alt=\"A dragonfly resting on dry grass stems in a lush green meadow, blending into the surrounding vegetation with its delicate transparent wings and slender brown body\" class=\"wp-image-16474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/09\/glider-spt-wngd16-1b-300x215.webp 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/09\/glider-spt-wngd16-1b.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like other dragonflies (and damselflies) they are carnivores both as aquatic naiads and as airborne adults. They are aerial feeders, finding and catching their prey in the air.\u00a0One source calls them important predators of mosquitoes, which they will hunt until the light gets too dim to see them, and they often join dragonflies like saddlebags and darners in feeding swarms.\u00a0Like birds, they fuel their long (<em>days<\/em>-long) flights, sometimes over oceans, by laying in fat deposits.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to see gliders, look up &#8211; they spend the vast majority of their time foraging for mosquitoes and gnats as high as 100 feet above fields, marshes, and parking lots, and when they land, they are well-concealed, perching vertically at the tip of a twig with abdomen curved <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1552286\/bgimage\">Spot-winged Glider &#8211; Pantala hymenaea &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the \u201cNotes from the field\u201d section of his account of the Spot-winged Glider in his Dragonflies of Northern Virginia blog, Kevin Munroe writes about trying to photograph them &#8211;&nbsp;<em>\u201cThe two female gliders to your right were caught after much running and leaping; set down to photograph, they soon caught their breath and flew<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Wandering and Spot-winged Gliders are on the list of about 16 species of North American dragonflies that are considered migratory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xerces.org\/publications\/identification-monitoring-guides\/field-guide-to-migratory-dragonflies\">Field Guide to Migratory Dragonflies | Xerces Society<\/a>, and they join the migratory swarms of Common Green Darners <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/2071318\/bgimage\">Anjax junius &#8211; Anax junius &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a> and Black Saddlebags <a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/1409103\/bgimage\">Saddlebag &#8211; Tramea lacerata &#8211; BugGuide.Net<\/a> that fly south along Lake Michigan\u2019s shoreline \u2013 right about now.\u00a0A northbound migration from tropical areas repopulates God\u2019s Country in summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For information about the Wandering Glider, see <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/wandering-glider\/\">Wandering Glider (Family Libellulidae) \u2013 Field Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BugLady is tardy in commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the death of her Major Professor, Dr. Richard B. 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