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Eight-spotted Skimmer

Libellula forensis

The Eight-spotted Skimmer is a beautiful dragonfly with eight spots on its wings! It loves to fly over ponds and lakes, catching tiny insects to eat.

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Eight-spotted Skimmer is a medium-sized dragonfly with a dark body, often with yellow side stripes. Its most distinctive feature is its wings, which have two prominent dark brown or black patches on each wing, making a total of eight spots. There is often a striking white or pale patch between the dark wing spots.

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Eight-spotted Skimmer
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Eight-spotted Skimmer

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Dragonflies spend most of their lives as fierce hunters underwater before taking to the sky!

Its amazing compound eyes have up to 30,000 tiny lenses for spotting the smallest prey!

They help keep pesky mosquito populations in check, especially around wetlands!

This ancient insect's ancestors flew the Earth over 300 million years ago, before dinosaurs!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Super Sight

Eight-spotted Skimmer has massive compound eyes that give it nearly 360-degree vision for spotting tiny insects.

Fähigkeit

Aerial Acrobatics

Eight-spotted Skimmer can fly backward, hover, and dart rapidly, catching prey mid-air with incredible agility.

Fähigkeit

Independent Flight

Eight-spotted Skimmer can move its four wings independently, allowing for amazing control and complex flight patterns.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
70-90 mm
Größe
45-55 mm
Lebenserwartung
30-90 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
35 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

An excellent hunter, it eats many flying insects, helping keep pest populations in check.

Altersunterschiede: Nymphs (young) hunt aquatic insects and small tadpoles, while adults exclusively catch flying insects.

Hauptnahrung

  • mosquitoes
  • gnats
  • flies
  • midges
  • small moths

Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

Common House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

helps control mosquito populations

eaten by

American Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

nymphs are prey for this hungry amphibian

eaten by

Eastern Kingbird

Tyrannus tyrannus

adults are a quick meal for this agile bird

hunts

House Fly

Musca domestica

an active predator of these common pests

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Noch keine Alternativnamen vorhanden.

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Dragonflies are friendly and won't hurt you, but it's best to watch them from a distance.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Eight-spotted Skimmer?

70-90 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Eight-spotted Skimmer?

45-55 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Eight-spotted Skimmer?

30-90 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Eight-spotted Skimmer?

35 km/h

Was frisst Eight-spotted Skimmer?

An excellent hunter, it eats many flying insects, helping keep pest populations in check.

Wo findet man Eight-spotted Skimmer normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Eight-spotted Skimmer?

Pursuit

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Eight-spotted Skimmer?

6

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