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Blue-fronted Dancer

Argia apicalis

The Blue-fronted Dancer is a beautiful dragonfly with bright blue colors. It loves to flutter around near water, showing off its lovely wings as it dances in the air.

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Blue-fronted Dancer is a slender damselfly, predominantly black with striking bright blue markings on its head and the front of its thorax. Its wings are clear and transparent, and it has large, widely spaced eyes, characteristic of damselflies.

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Blue-fronted Dancer
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Blue-fronted Dancer

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Damselflies fold their wings back over their body when resting, unlike dragonflies!

The males often "dance" over water to find a mate, inspiring their name!

Their babies live underwater for months, breathing through gills in their tails!

They spend most of their life as aquatic hunters before growing wings!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Agile Aerial Hunter

Blue-fronted Dancer can dart and hover effortlessly because of its two pairs of independently moving wings, helping them catch tiny insects mid-air.

Fähigkeit

Super Sight

Blue-fronted Dancer has large, compound eyes that cover most of its head, helping them spot prey and predators from many directions at once.

Fähigkeit

Underwater Breath

Blue-fronted Dancer nymphs can breathe underwater using special gills at their tail end, helping them survive and hunt beneath the surface.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
30-50 mm
Größe
30-38 mm
Lebenserwartung
30-90 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
10 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

Tiny flying insects are their favorite snack, caught with lightning speed in the air!

Altersunterschiede: Nymphs hunt aquatic insects and larvae underwater, while adults hunt flying insects in the air.

Hauptnahrung

  • mosquitoes
  • gnats
  • small flies
  • midges
  • aphids

Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

common house mosquito

Culex pipiens

helps control mosquito populations

hunts

non-biting midge

Chironomus plumosus

eats these tiny flying insects

eaten by

American bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

frogs prey on adult damselflies

eaten by

yellow perch

Perca flavescens

fish eat their aquatic young

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Be careful around water where dragonflies live, and watch them from a distance.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Blue-fronted Dancer?

30-50 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Blue-fronted Dancer?

30-38 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Blue-fronted Dancer?

30-90 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Blue-fronted Dancer?

10 km/h

Was frisst Blue-fronted Dancer?

Tiny flying insects are their favorite snack, caught with lightning speed in the air!

Wo findet man Blue-fronted Dancer normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Blue-fronted Dancer?

Pursuit

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Blue-fronted Dancer?

6

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