Researchers conducted surveys of flying adults, tenerals (adults that have recently emerged from the exuviae), as well as exuviae (abandoned skins of emerged insects). In New Brunswick, 132 species of damselflies and dragonflies are known. Upon conducting their surveys, the researchers documented 242 occurrences of a whopping 57 different species of dragonflies and damselflies – that’s 43 per cent of the known species in the province. Five of those species were listed to be “Of Concern” in New Brunswick.
