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Beautiful Demoiselle

Calopteryx virgo

The Beautiful Demoiselle is a stunning dragonfly with bright blue or green wings. They flutter around rivers and streams, showing off their beautiful colors to everyone nearby.

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Beautiful Demoiselle males have a slender, iridescent blue-green body with striking dark, almost black wings that shimmer purple in sunlight. Females are typically a duller bronze-green, featuring translucent brownish wings with a small white spot on each.

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Beautiful Demoiselle
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Beautiful Demoiselle

Kategorie

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Finding them is a sign that a river or stream has very clean and healthy water.

Male demoiselles perform a graceful, fluttering dance to impress and attract a mate.

Their fierce larvae are ambush hunters, lurking on riverbeds to snatch aquatic prey!

Unlike dragonflies, these damselflies hold their wings together over their back when resting.

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Underwater Breath

Beautiful Demoiselle larvae can breathe underwater using special gills, which helps them survive hidden from predators for years.

Fähigkeit

Acrobatic Flight

Beautiful Demoiselle can quickly change direction and hover in mid-air, allowing them to expertly catch tiny flying insects.

Fähigkeit

Jewel Signal

Beautiful Demoiselle's iridescent wings flash bright colours, which helps them signal their presence to other damselflies.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
60-75 mm
Größe
45-50 mm
Lebenserwartung
20-60 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
8 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

Both young and adult Beautiful Demoiselles are skillful hunters of smaller insects, on land and in water.

Altersunterschiede: Larvae hunt aquatic insects and small tadpoles underwater, while adults catch flying insects in the air.

Hauptnahrung

  • mosquitoes
  • midges
  • small flies
  • mayfly larvae
  • aquatic worms

Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

Grey Wagtail

Motacilla cinerea

Grey Wagtails often snatch them from riverbanks.

hunts

blood midge

Chironomus plumosus

Larvae of the demoiselle hunt these midge larvae underwater.

hunts

Yellow Fever Mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Adult demoiselles expertly catch these flying pests in the air.

depends on

Common Reed

Phragmites australis

They often perch on emergent vegetation along water edges.

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Calopteryx

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Watch them from a distance; they are delicate and like to be left alone.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Beautiful Demoiselle?

60-75 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Beautiful Demoiselle?

45-50 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Beautiful Demoiselle?

20-60 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Beautiful Demoiselle?

8 km/h

Was frisst Beautiful Demoiselle?

Both young and adult Beautiful Demoiselles are skillful hunters of smaller insects, on land and in water.

Wo findet man Beautiful Demoiselle normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Beautiful Demoiselle?

Pursuit

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Beautiful Demoiselle?

6

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