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Stream Bluet

Enallagma exsulans

The Stream Bluet is a small, colorful dragonfly that loves to flutter around streams and ponds. With its bright blue body, it looks like a tiny jewel dancing in the air!

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Stream Bluet has a slender body, often bright blue in males with distinct black markings on its abdomen. Females are typically duller, ranging from brownish to greenish-tan, making them blend in more with vegetation. Its delicate appearance distinguishes it from stouter dragonflies.

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Stream Bluet
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Stream Bluet

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

A Stream Bluet spends most of its life underwater as a nymph, breathing through gills in its tail!

Damselflies like the Bluet can fly backwards, which helps them maneuver expertly through tight spaces!

Males 'guard' females while they lay eggs, ensuring no other males try to mate with them.

Unlike dragonflies, Stream Bluets hold their wings neatly folded together over their backs when resting.

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Underwater Hunter

Stream Bluet nymphs can ambush prey underwater because of their powerful extendable lower lip that helps them snatch small aquatic creatures.

Fähigkeit

Agile Flight

Stream Bluet adults can dart and hover in the air because of their two pairs of independently moving wings, helping them catch flying insects.

Fähigkeit

Keen Eyesight

Stream Bluets have large compound eyes that help them spot tiny prey and predators from many angles at once.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
40-50 mm
Größe
26-32 mm
Lebenserwartung
365-730 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
7 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

They are tiny hunters, catching and eating small insects both underwater as nymphs and in the air as adults!

Altersunterschiede: Nymphs hunt aquatic insects underwater, while adults catch flying insects in the air.

Hauptnahrung

  • mosquito larvae
  • small aquatic insects
  • mosquitoes
  • gnats
  • flies
  • midges

Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

Common House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Adults prey on this common flying insect.

eaten by

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

Nymphs are a food source for this freshwater fish.

eaten by

Tree Swallow

Tachycineta bicolor

Adults are preyed upon by these aerial insectivores.

eaten by

American Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Both nymphs and adults can be eaten by this amphibian.

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Watch dragonflies from a distance; they are friendly but like their space.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

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

40-50 mm

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

26-32 mm

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

365-730 Tage

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

7 km/h

Was frisst Stream Bluet?

They are tiny hunters, catching and eating small insects both underwater as nymphs and in the air as adults!

Wo findet man Stream Bluet normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Stream Bluet?

Pursuit

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

6

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