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Aztec Dancer

Argia nahuana

The Aztec Dancer is a beautiful dragonfly with bright colors. It loves to flutter around near water, showing off its amazing flying skills. Watching it dance in the air is like seeing a tiny rainbow!

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Aztec Dancer is a slender damselfly, usually bright blue with black markings on its abdomen and thorax, especially in males. Its clear, delicate wings are held together over its back when resting, unlike dragonflies. Females are typically duller, often greenish-brown or bluish-gray.

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Aztec Dancer
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Aztec Dancer

Kategorie

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Aztec Dancer babies live underwater for months or even years before flying!

Male Aztec Dancers perform dazzling aerial dances to attract a mate!

They can eat hundreds of tiny annoying mosquitoes in just one day!

When an Aztec Dancer grows up, it leaves its old skin behind clinging to a plant!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Acrobatic Flight

Aztec Dancer can quickly change direction in mid-air because of its agile wings that help them hunt flying insects.

Fähigkeit

Underwater Hunter

Its nymphs (young Aztec Dancers) can breathe underwater using gills that helps them hunt tiny aquatic prey.

Fähigkeit

360-Degree Vision

Aztec Dancer has huge compound eyes that helps them spot prey and predators from almost any direction.

Fähigkeit

Stealthy Tracker

Aztec Dancer can dart quickly through dense vegetation because of its slender body, helping it evade predators.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
40-55 mm
Größe
30-38 mm
Lebenserwartung
30-60 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
10 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

Tiny flying insects are on the menu for this speedy hunter, keeping mosquito populations in check!

Altersunterschiede: Young Aztec Dancers (nymphs) eat aquatic insects, while adults hunt flying insects in the air.

Hauptnahrung

  • mosquitoes
  • gnats
  • small flies
  • midges
  • mayflies

Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

common mosquito

Culex pipiens

Adults help control mosquito populations.

eaten by

common green darner

Anax junius

Larger dragonflies sometimes prey on smaller damselflies.

eaten by

American bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Frogs prey on adult damselflies near water.

eaten by

western mosquitofish

Gambusia affinis

Fish eat damselfly nymphs in the water.

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Be gentle and quiet when watching dragonflies so you don't scare them away.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Aztec Dancer?

40-55 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Aztec Dancer?

30-38 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Aztec Dancer?

30-60 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Aztec Dancer?

10 km/h

Was frisst Aztec Dancer?

Tiny flying insects are on the menu for this speedy hunter, keeping mosquito populations in check!

Wo findet man Aztec Dancer normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Aztec Dancer?

Pursuit

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Aztec Dancer?

6

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