Beautiful Demoiselle

Calopteryx virgo

The Beautiful Demoiselle is a stunning dragonfly with bright blue or green wings. They flutter around rivers and streams, showing off their beautiful colors to everyone nearby.

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Beautiful Demoiselle males have a slender, iridescent blue-green body with striking dark, almost black wings that shimmer purple in sunlight. Females are typically a duller bronze-green, featuring translucent brownish wings with a small white spot on each.

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Beautiful Demoiselle

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

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Datos interesantes

Finding them is a sign that a river or stream has very clean and healthy water.

Male demoiselles perform a graceful, fluttering dance to impress and attract a mate.

Their fierce larvae are ambush hunters, lurking on riverbeds to snatch aquatic prey!

Unlike dragonflies, these damselflies hold their wings together over their back when resting.

Habilidades especiales

Beautiful Demoiselle larvae can breathe underwater using special gills, which helps them survive hidden from predators for years.

Beautiful Demoiselle can quickly change direction and hover in mid-air, allowing them to expertly catch tiny flying insects.

Beautiful Demoiselle's iridescent wings flash bright colours, which helps them signal their presence to other damselflies.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 60-75 mm
Tamaño: 45-50 mm
Esperanza de vida: 20-60 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 8 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

Both young and adult Beautiful Demoiselles are skillful hunters of smaller insects, on land and in water.

Diferencias por edad: Larvae hunt aquatic insects and small tadpoles underwater, while adults catch flying insects in the air.

Alimentos principales

mosquitoes
midges
small flies
mayfly larvae
aquatic worms

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

eaten by

Grey Wagtail

Motacilla cinerea

Grey Wagtails often snatch them from riverbanks.

hunts

blood midge

Chironomus plumosus

Larvae of the demoiselle hunt these midge larvae underwater.

hunts

Yellow Fever Mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Adult demoiselles expertly catch these flying pests in the air.

depends on

Common Reed

Phragmites australis

They often perch on emergent vegetation along water edges.

Rasgos

Social

Los animales sociales viven en grupos organizados, cooperando para obtener beneficios de supervivencia como la búsqueda de alimento, la defensa y la cría de descendencia.

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.