Bar-winged Skimmer

Libellula axilena

The Bar-winged Skimmer is a beautiful dragonfly with bright colors and unique wing patterns. They love to fly around ponds and lakes, where they can be seen darting through the air.

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Bar-winged Skimmer has a robust body and clear wings, distinctively marked with a dark brown or black patch at the base of each hindwing. Males are powdery blue, while females are yellowish-brown, both featuring a prominent dark pterostigma near the wingtip.

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Bar-winged Skimmer

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

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Dragonflies are ancient insects, soaring for over 300 million years!

Males patrol territories over water, chasing away other dragonflies that intrude.

Their young live underwater for up to two years, breathing through special gills!

They can control their body temperature by adjusting how much they fly or perch.

Habilidades especiales

Bar-winged Skimmer has huge compound eyes that help them spot tiny flying prey and predators from almost any direction.

Bar-winged Skimmer can instantly change direction mid-air because of their four independently controlled wings, allowing amazing agility.

Bar-winged Skimmer can dart forward at incredible speeds to snatch insects right out of the air using their spiny legs like a basket.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 60-80 mm
Tamaño: 40-50 mm
Esperanza de vida: 30-60 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 35 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

These skillful aerial hunters feast on tiny flying insects like mosquitoes and flies, keeping populations in check.

Diferencias por edad: Nymphs hunt underwater insects; adults catch flying prey.

Alimentos principales

mosquitoes
flies
gnats
midges
smaller moths

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Yellow Fever Mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Eats these pesky flying insects

eaten by

Green Frog

Rana clamitans

Often becomes a meal for hungry frogs

eaten by

Northern Pike

Esox lucius

Large fish prey on their aquatic nymphs

hunts

Common House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

An effective predator of mosquito adults

Rasgos

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.