Common Winter Damselfly

Sympecma fusca

The Common Winter Damselfly is a small, delicate insect that can be seen during the chilly months. They are often found resting on plants, showing off their beautiful wings.

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Common Winter Damselfly has a slender, elongated body, typically bronze-brown with metallic green reflections. Its clear wings often remain spread at rest, a unique trait for most damselflies, and it can darken its colour in colder temperatures, making it look different from other damselflies.

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Common Winter Damselfly

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

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Datos interesantes

Spot its wings! They can shimmer like tiny stained glass windows in the sun!

Their eyes have thousands of tiny lenses, giving them a super wide view!

This damselfly is Europe's only one that survives winter as an adult!

This damselfly is a fantastic hunter, catching tiny insects mid-air with incredible speed!

Habilidades especiales

Common Winter Damselfly can survive winter as an adult by lowering its metabolism, helping them live longer than most damselflies.

Common Winter Damselfly can darken its body colour, helping it absorb more sun and warm up faster in cool weather.

Common Winter Damselfly has unique wings because they rest slightly open, helping it soak up the sun's warmth on cool days.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 40-55 mm
Tamaño: 30-45 mm
Esperanza de vida: 200-270 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 7 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

This tiny hunter loves to eat other small insects.

Diferencias por edad: Larvae eat aquatic insects; adults hunt flying prey.

Alimentos principales

midges
mosquitoes
small flies
aphids
gnats

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Midge

Chironomus plumosus

Adults snatch midges from the air.

hunts

Yellow Fever Mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Adults help control mosquito populations.

eaten by

Common Frog

Rana temporaria

Frogs sometimes snap up resting damselflies.

eaten by

Northern Pike

Esox lucius

Pike prey on damselfly larvae in water.

Rasgos

Solitario

Los animales solitarios viven solos durante la mayor parte de su vida y solo interactúan con otros para aparearse o cuidar de sus crías.

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.

Hibernante

Los animales hibernantes entran en un estado de depresión metabólica durante períodos de frío o escasez de alimentos, caracterizado por una reducción de la temperatura corporal y la actividad.

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.