Banded Pennant

Celithemis fasciata

The Banded Pennant is a colorful dragonfly with bright yellow and black stripes. It loves to fly around sunny areas, catching tiny bugs to eat. Watching it zoom by is always a fun sight!

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Banded Pennant has a reddish-brown body, often with a brighter red abdomen in males, and distinctive dark reddish-brown bands or spots on each of its four transparent wings. Females tend to be more yellowish-brown, making them visually distinct from the brighter males.

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Banded Pennant

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Snaps

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Datos interesantes

Banded Pennant nymphs live underwater for up to five years before they become adult dragonflies.

Each day, a single Banded Pennant can eat hundreds of bothersome mosquitoes.

They are ancient insects, having flown the Earth for over 300 million years!

They can control each of their four wings independently, allowing for amazing aerial stunts!

Habilidades especiales

Banded Pennant has huge compound eyes that help them spot tiny flying insects from far away in almost every direction.

Banded Pennant can fly backwards, hover, and turn instantly because of its powerful, independently moving wings.

Banded Pennant has spiky legs that form a basket to scoop flying insects right out of the air while flying.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 50-70 mm
Tamaño: 30-45 mm
Esperanza de vida: 30-90 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 25 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

These speedy hunters catch and eat other insects, especially pesky mosquitoes and flies!

Diferencias por edad: Young nymphs eat aquatic insects and tiny tadpoles underwater; adults eat flying insects above water.

Alimentos principales

mosquitoes
flies
gnats
small moths
midges

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Yellow fever mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Adults actively pursue and eat mosquitoes.

eaten by

American Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Adult dragonflies can be prey for large frogs.

eaten by

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

Nymphs living underwater are prey for fish.

Rasgos

A rayas

Marcado con bandas paralelas o líneas de color.

Aéreo

Las criaturas aéreas pasan una parte importante de su vida en el aire, utilizando el vuelo para diversas actividades como la caza, la migración o la anidación.

Colorido

Colorido describe a organismos u objetos que exhiben una amplia variedad de colores brillantes y distintivos.

Insectívoro

Este rasgo identifica a los organismos cuya dieta consiste principalmente en insectos y otros pequeños invertebrados.

Humedal

Este rasgo de hábitat identifica especies que se encuentran en humedales, que son áreas de tierra saturadas de agua, ya sea permanente o estacionalmente, e incluyen marismas, pantanos y ciénagas.