Emerald Spreadwing

Lestes dryas

The Emerald Spreadwing is a beautiful dragonfly with bright green wings. It loves to flutter around wetlands and ponds, showing off its shiny colors to everyone nearby.

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Emerald Spreadwing has a vibrant metallic green body that shines in the sunlight, often with pale yellow stripes on its sides. Its clear wings are held spread out and angled back when resting, making it look different from many other damselflies that fold their wings over their backs.

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Emerald Spreadwing

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

Their babies live underwater for years, breathing with special tail gills!

These insects use spiky legs like a basket to scoop up flying snacks in mid-air!

They lay their tiny eggs right inside plant stems, often under the water!

When resting, Emerald Spreadwings hold their wings wide open, unlike most other damselflies!

Habilidades especiales

Emerald Spreadwing can hold its wings open at rest because this posture helps them warm up faster in the sun.

Emerald Spreadwing has gills on its tail as a nymph that helps them breathe and hunt aquatic prey underwater for years.

Emerald Spreadwing can catch tiny flying insects in mid-air because its agile flight allows for precise, quick maneuvers.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 40-55 mm
Tamaño: 35-45 mm
Esperanza de vida: 15-60 días
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

Hungry hunters, Emerald Spreadwings mostly eat small insects, both as adults and as aquatic nymphs!

Diferencias por edad: Nymphs eat aquatic invertebrates; adults eat flying insects.

Alimentos principales

Mosquitoes
Midges
Small flies
Gnats
Aphids

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Yellow Fever Mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Helps control mosquito populations.

eaten by

American Bullfrog

Rana catesbeiana

Frogs often feast on adult damselflies.

eats

Northern Pike

Esox lucius

Large fish consume aquatic nymphs.

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.

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.