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Familiar Bluet

Enallagma civile

The Familiar Bluet is a small, beautiful dragonfly with bright blue colors. They love to fly around ponds and streams, showing off their lovely wings.

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Familiar Bluet is a slender damselfly, vibrantly blue with distinct black markings on its abdomen. It has two small, bright blue spots behind its large eyes and clear wings that it holds together over its back when at rest, differentiating it from dragonflies.

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Familiar Bluet
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Familiar Bluet

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Baby bluets, called nymphs, live underwater for months before transforming.

Damselflies are ancient insects, flying since before the dinosaurs roamed!

Their delicate wings sparkle in the sun, made of tiny clear veins.

They mate in a unique 'wheel' formation, sometimes called a 'heart' shape!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Underwater Hunter

Familiar Bluet larvae can breathe underwater using gills that helps them hunt other tiny aquatic creatures.

Fähigkeit

Acrobatic Flyer

Familiar Bluets can dart and hover quickly because of their two pairs of independently moving wings that helps them catch flying insects.

Fähigkeit

Keen-eyed Predator

Familiar Bluets have huge compound eyes that helps them spot tiny prey insects from far away.

Fähigkeit

Color Coder

Familiar Bluets appear vibrantly blue because of special pigments that helps them attract mates and define their territory.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
30-50 mm
Größe
25-40 mm
Lebenserwartung
15-30 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
5-10 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

This tiny hunter eats small flying insects and aquatic creatures.

Altersunterschiede: Larvae are aquatic predators, adults are aerial predators.

Hauptnahrung

  • mosquitoes
  • gnats
  • midges
  • small flies
  • aquatic insect larvae

Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

Common House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Helps control populations of nuisance mosquitoes.

eaten by

Green Frog

Lithobates clamitans

A common amphibian predator of adult bluets.

eaten by

Mosquitofish

Gambusia affinis

Eats bluet larvae in aquatic environments.

eaten by

Eastern Kingbird

Tyrannus tyrannus

Insect-eating bird that catches adult damselflies.

shelters

White Water Lily

Nymphaea odorata

Rests on and lays eggs near aquatic plants.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Dragonflies are harmless but always watch them from a distance.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Familiar Bluet?

30-50 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Familiar Bluet?

25-40 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Familiar Bluet?

15-30 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Familiar Bluet?

5-10 km/h

Was frisst Familiar Bluet?

This tiny hunter eats small flying insects and aquatic creatures.

Wo findet man Familiar Bluet normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Familiar Bluet?

Pursuit

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Familiar Bluet?

6

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