Double-striped Bluet

Enallagma basidens

The Double-striped Bluet is a small, beautiful dragonfly with bright blue colors and two black stripes on its body. These friendly insects love to flutter around ponds and streams, making them fun to watch!

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Double-striped Bluet is a slender damselfly, usually with a bright blue and black body. Males are predominantly blue with two distinct pale stripes along their black thorax. Females often appear duller, with greenish or brownish markings instead of bright blue.

ReinoAnimaliaFiloArthropodaClaseInsectaOrdenOdonataFamiliaCoenagrionidaeGéneroEnallagma

Double-striped Bluet

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

A Double-striped Bluet can swivel its head almost 180 degrees to spot tiny flying bugs!

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

These damselflies form a unique 'mating wheel' shape during reproduction!

They are excellent pest controllers, gobbling up hundreds of mosquitos in their lifetime!

Habilidades especiales

Double-striped Bluet has huge compound eyes that help them spot tiny flying prey from far away with incredible detail.

Double-striped Bluet nymphs can breathe underwater using special gills, allowing them to hunt and grow in aquatic habitats.

Double-striped Bluet can hover and dart quickly because of its four independently controlled wings, making it a master flyer.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 30-45 mm
Tamaño: 25-35 mm
Esperanza de vida: 20-60 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 5-10 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

They gobble up tiny flying insects like mosquitos, and their young eat underwater bugs!

Diferencias por edad: Nymphs hunt small aquatic invertebrates, while adults prey on flying insects.

Alimentos principales

Mosquitos
Gnats
Midges
Small flies
Aquatic larvae

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Common House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Adults prey on this mosquito.

hunts

Blood Midge

Chironomus plumosus

Adults hunt these soft-bodied insects.

eaten by

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

Nymphs are a food source for fish.

eaten by

American Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Adults are preyed upon by frogs.

Rasgos

A rayas

Marcado con bandas paralelas o líneas de color.

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.