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Tule Bluet

Enallagma carunculatum

The Tule Bluet is a small, beautiful dragonfly with bright blue colors. They love to flutter around wetlands and ponds, making them fun to watch as they zip through the air.

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Tule Bluet is a small, slender damselfly typically deep blue and black. Males have striking blue markings on their thorax and abdomen, often with a distinct "teardrop" shaped spot on the side of the second abdominal segment. Their large, widely spaced eyes are also blue.

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Tule Bluet
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Tule Bluet

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Adult Tule Bluets only live for a few weeks, making every sunny day an adventure!

After hatching, a Tule Bluet naiad sheds its skin many times as it gets bigger.

Males have a special blue spot on their belly that helps females recognize them for mating.

Their babies live underwater for months, growing and hunting before they can fly!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Swift Snatcher

Tule Bluet can swiftly catch tiny flying insects with its spiky legs that act like a basket.

Fähigkeit

Underwater Breath

Its young (naiads) can breathe underwater using feathery gills at the end of their abdomen.

Fähigkeit

Acrobat Flier

Tule Bluets can fly forward, backward, and hover silently to ambush unsuspecting prey.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
30-40 mm
Größe
25-33 mm
Lebenserwartung
14-28 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
7 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

Tiny predators, Tule Bluets feast on smaller insects found near water.

Altersunterschiede: Young Tule Bluets (naiads) hunt aquatic insect larvae and small crustaceans underwater.

Hauptnahrung

  • mosquitoes
  • gnats
  • small flies
  • aphids
  • mayflies

Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

hunts

Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Tule Bluets prey on flying mosquitoes.

eaten by

American Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Adult Tule Bluets can be a meal for hungry frogs.

eaten by

Mosquitofish

Gambusia affinis

Fish often eat Tule Bluet naiads underwater.

eaten by

Eastern Kingbird

Tyrannus tyrannus

Birds snatch flying adult damselflies.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Always watch dragonflies from a distance so you don't scare them away.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

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

30-40 mm

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

25-33 mm

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

14-28 Tage

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

7 km/h

Was frisst Tule Bluet?

Tiny predators, Tule Bluets feast on smaller insects found near water.

Wo findet man Tule Bluet normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Tule Bluet?

Pursuit

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

6

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