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Slender Bluet

Enallagma traviatum

The Slender Bluet is a small, beautiful dragonfly with bright blue colors. They love to flutter around ponds and streams, making them fun to watch as they zoom by!

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Slender Bluet is a small damselfly with a very slender body. Males are strikingly bright blue with distinct black markings, including a black "wine-glass" or "keyhole" shape on the second abdominal segment. Females are typically duller, appearing greenish or brownish.

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Slender Bluet
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Slender Bluet

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Adult Slender Bluets often eat hundreds of mosquitoes and other small flying pests daily!

Most of a Slender Bluet's life is spent underwater as a fascinating aquatic nymph!

Their wings can move separately, allowing them to hover or make super-fast turns in the air!

You can tell male Slender Bluets apart by a unique black "wine glass" pattern on their abdomen!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Super Sight

Slender Bluets have huge compound eyes that help them spot tiny prey and predators from almost every direction.

Fähigkeit

Instant Flight

The Slender Bluet can launch into flight instantly from a perch to chase after prey or quickly escape from danger.

Fähigkeit

Sticky Perch

Slender Bluets have tiny claws on their legs that help them cling tightly to plants, even upside down, near water.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
35-45 mm
Größe
28-35 mm
Lebenserwartung
30-50 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
15 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

They are tiny hunters, catching and eating small flying insects or aquatic larvae in the water.

Altersunterschiede: Nymphs eat aquatic insects; adults hunt flying insects.

Hauptnahrung

  • Mosquitoes
  • Gnats
  • Midges
  • Small flies
  • Aquatic insect larvae

Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eats

Common House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Adults and nymphs prey on mosquitoes.

eaten by

Green Frog

Lithobates clamitans

Frogs prey on both adult and nymph damselflies.

hunts

Common Green Darner

Anax junius

Larger dragonflies often hunt damselflies.

depends on

Common Cattail

Typha latifolia

Provides perching sites and habitat for nymphs.

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Noch keine Alternativnamen vorhanden.

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Dragonflies are harmless and fun to watch, but don't try to catch them!

Häufig gestellte Fragen

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

35-45 mm

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

28-35 mm

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

30-50 Tage

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

15 km/h

Was frisst Slender Bluet?

They are tiny hunters, catching and eating small flying insects or aquatic larvae in the water.

Wo findet man Slender Bluet normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Slender Bluet?

Pursuit

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

6

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