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Blue Featherleg

Platycnemis pennipes

The Blue Featherleg is a pretty dragonfly with bright blue legs and a shiny body. It loves to fly around near water and is often seen resting on plants.

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Blue Featherleg is a striking insect, often featuring a bright sky-blue body for males and duller tones for females. It has distinctly widened, flattened white lower leg segments on its middle and hind legs, giving it a unique 'feathered' appearance. This damselfly typically holds its two pairs of clear wings together over its back when at rest.

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Blue Featherleg
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Blue Featherleg

Kategorie

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

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Interessante Fakten

Blue Featherlegs can fly backwards and sideways, not just forwards!

Males have special white 'feathered' legs they show off to attract a mate!

Their amazing eyes have thousands of tiny lenses, helping them see almost all around them!

Their babies (nymphs) live in water and breathe with gills, like fish!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Feathered Signal

Blue Featherleg has uniquely widened, white lower leg segments that help them signal to mates and rivals.

Fähigkeit

Watery Childhood

Blue Featherleg can spend years as a gill-breathing nymph underwater, helping them develop safely before flying.

Fähigkeit

Insect Interceptor

Blue Featherleg can fly with incredible agility, catching tiny flying insects mid-air that helps them find food.

Fähigkeit

Sharp Sight

Blue Featherleg has enormous compound eyes that help them spot tiny prey and avoid predators from almost any angle.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
45-60 mm
Größe
35-40 mm
Lebenserwartung
30-60 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
10 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

Tiny flying insects are the favorite meal of the adult Blue Featherleg, while their young hunt underwater.

Altersunterschiede: Nymphs hunt aquatic invertebrates underwater; adults catch flying insects in the air.

Hauptnahrung

  • mosquitoes
  • midges
  • small flies
  • mayflies

Methoden der Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit
  • Ambush

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eats

Water flea

Daphnia pulex

Nymphs prey on tiny zooplankton.

eats

Common house mosquito

Culex pipiens

Adults catch these flying insects.

eaten by

Common frog

Rana temporaria

Frogs can snatch them near water.

eaten by

Spotted Flycatcher

Muscicapa striata

Birds hunt them in flight.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Dragonflies are harmless and fun to watch, but don't try to catch them!

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Blue Featherleg?

45-60 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Blue Featherleg?

35-40 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Blue Featherleg?

30-60 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Blue Featherleg?

10 km/h

Was frisst Blue Featherleg?

Tiny flying insects are the favorite meal of the adult Blue Featherleg, while their young hunt underwater.

Wo findet man Blue Featherleg normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Blue Featherleg?

Pursuit and Ambush

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Blue Featherleg?

6

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