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Vivid Dancer

Argia vivida

The Vivid Dancer is a colorful dragonfly that loves to dance in the air. With its bright blue and green colors, it flits around ponds and streams, making it a beautiful sight to see!

Lebensraum: Wetlands

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The Vivid Dancer is a slender damselfly, with males featuring striking iridescent blue bodies marked with black. Its large, widely separated eyes are typically dark, distinguishing it from many dragonflies, and its two pairs of clear wings are held together over its back.

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Vivid Dancer
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Vivid Dancer

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Damselflies fold their wings back when resting, unlike dragonflies who hold them out!

Male Vivid Dancers are bright blue, but females can be tan, brown, or even green!

Their babies, called nymphs, live underwater for months or even years before transforming.

These tiny hunters help control mosquito populations by gobbling them up!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

360-Degree Vision

Vivid Dancer has enormous compound eyes that help them detect predators and tiny prey in almost every direction at once.

Fähigkeit

Nimble Flight

Vivid Dancer can fly with incredible agility, darting and hovering to catch small insects or escape from hungry birds.

Fähigkeit

Underwater Breathing

Vivid Dancer nymphs possess feathery gills at the end of their abdomen, allowing them to breathe underwater.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
50-70 mm
Größe
25-35 mm
Lebenserwartung
20-60 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
8 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

These tiny hunters gobble up small flying insects, keeping pesky bugs away!

Altersunterschiede: Nymphs eat aquatic insect larvae and tiny invertebrates underwater.

Hauptnahrung

  • Mosquitoes
  • Gnats
  • Midges
  • Small flies
  • Aphids

Nahrungssuche

  • Pursuit

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

Fish eagerly snap up damselfly nymphs and adults.

eaten by

Mallard Duck

Anas platyrhynchos

Ducks will eat damselflies near water sources.

hunts

Common Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Actively preys on mosquitoes, helping control populations.

hunts

Fruit Fly

Drosophila melanogaster

Chases down and consumes small flying insects like fruit flies.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Be careful not to touch dragonflies; they are delicate and can fly away quickly.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Vivid Dancer?

50-70 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Vivid Dancer?

25-35 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Vivid Dancer?

20-60 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Vivid Dancer?

8 km/h

Was frisst Vivid Dancer?

These tiny hunters gobble up small flying insects, keeping pesky bugs away!

Wo findet man Vivid Dancer normalerweise?

Wetlands

Wie jagt Vivid Dancer?

Pursuit

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Vivid Dancer?

6

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