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Double-striped Bluet

Enallagma basidens

The Double-striped Bluet is a small, beautiful dragonfly with bright blue colors and two black stripes on its body. These friendly insects love to flutter around ponds and streams, making them fun to watch!

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Double-striped Bluet is a slender damselfly, usually with a bright blue and black body. Males are predominantly blue with two distinct pale stripes along their black thorax. Females often appear duller, with greenish or brownish markings instead of bright blue.

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Double-striped Bluet
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Double-striped Bluet

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

A Double-striped Bluet can swivel its head almost 180 degrees to spot tiny flying bugs!

Their babies, called nymphs, live underwater for months or even years before transforming!

These damselflies form a unique 'mating wheel' shape during reproduction!

They are excellent pest controllers, gobbling up hundreds of mosquitos in their lifetime!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Super Sight

Double-striped Bluet has huge compound eyes that help them spot tiny flying prey from far away with incredible detail.

Fähigkeit

Underwater Breath

Double-striped Bluet nymphs can breathe underwater using special gills, allowing them to hunt and grow in aquatic habitats.

Fähigkeit

Agile Aerialist

Double-striped Bluet can hover and dart quickly because of its four independently controlled wings, making it a master flyer.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
30-45 mm
Größe
25-35 mm
Lebenserwartung
20-60 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
5-10 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

They gobble up tiny flying insects like mosquitos, and their young eat underwater bugs!

Altersunterschiede: Nymphs hunt small aquatic invertebrates, while adults prey on flying insects.

Hauptnahrung

  • Mosquitos
  • Gnats
  • Midges
  • Small flies
  • Aquatic larvae

Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

Common House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Adults prey on this mosquito.

hunts

Blood Midge

Chironomus plumosus

Adults hunt these soft-bodied insects.

eaten by

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

Nymphs are a food source for fish.

eaten by

American Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Adults are preyed upon by frogs.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Be gentle and watch from a distance. Don't try to catch them!

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Double-striped Bluet?

30-45 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Double-striped Bluet?

25-35 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Double-striped Bluet?

20-60 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Double-striped Bluet?

5-10 km/h

Was frisst Double-striped Bluet?

They gobble up tiny flying insects like mosquitos, and their young eat underwater bugs!

Wo findet man Double-striped Bluet normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Double-striped Bluet?

Pursuit

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Double-striped Bluet?

6

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