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Olive Clubtail

Stylurus olivaceus

The Olive Clubtail is a special dragonfly with a long, slender body and beautiful olive-green colors. They love to fly around near water and are great at catching insects in the air!

Lebensraum: Wetlands

Aussehen

The Olive Clubtail has a distinctive olive-green thorax and a dark abdomen with yellowish stripes. Its namesake 'club' refers to the widened segments at the end of its abdomen, making it visually distinct from many other slender dragonflies.

ReichAnimaliaStammArthropodaKlasseInsectaOrdnungOdonataFamilieGomphidaeGattungStylurus
Olive Clubtail
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Olive Clubtail

Kategorie

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Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Adults catch flying insects using their spiky legs like a net while flying incredibly fast!

Dragonflies like the Olive Clubtail are ancient, flying the Earth even before dinosaurs roamed!

Its underwater larva can live for years, breathing with gills before transforming into an adult!

They are great indicators of healthy, clean freshwater ecosystems because of their sensitive larvae!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Super Sight

Olive Clubtail has incredible wrap-around compound eyes that help them spot tiny prey and predators from almost any direction.

Fähigkeit

Aerial Acrobatics

Olive Clubtail can hover, fly backward, and turn on a dime because of its independently controlled wings, allowing precise aerial hunting.

Fähigkeit

Stealthy Hunter

Olive Clubtail has an olive-green body that helps them blend perfectly with riparian vegetation, making them nearly invisible.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
60-85 mm
Größe
40-55 mm
Lebenserwartung
30-90 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
30-50 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

A fierce aerial hunter, it munches on smaller insects it snatches from the sky.

Altersunterschiede: Larvae hunt aquatic invertebrates like tadpoles and insect larvae; adults eat flying insects.

Hauptnahrung

  • mosquitoes
  • flies
  • midges
  • moths

Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

Common Mosquito

Culex pipiens

adults actively hunt them in flight

eaten by

American Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

adults are prey for this amphibian

eaten by

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

larvae are a food source for fish

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Dragonflies are not dangerous, but it's best to watch them from a distance.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Olive Clubtail?

60-85 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Olive Clubtail?

40-55 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Olive Clubtail?

30-90 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Olive Clubtail?

30-50 km/h

Was frisst Olive Clubtail?

A fierce aerial hunter, it munches on smaller insects it snatches from the sky.

Wo findet man Olive Clubtail normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Olive Clubtail?

Pursuit

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Olive Clubtail?

6

Snap-Karte

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