Familiar Bluet

Enallagma civile

The Familiar Bluet is a small, beautiful dragonfly with bright blue colors. They love to fly around ponds and streams, showing off their lovely wings.

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Familiar Bluet is a slender damselfly, vibrantly blue with distinct black markings on its abdomen. It has two small, bright blue spots behind its large eyes and clear wings that it holds together over its back when at rest, differentiating it from dragonflies.

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Familiar Bluet

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Snaps

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Datos interesantes

Baby bluets, called nymphs, live underwater for months before transforming.

Damselflies are ancient insects, flying since before the dinosaurs roamed!

Their delicate wings sparkle in the sun, made of tiny clear veins.

They mate in a unique 'wheel' formation, sometimes called a 'heart' shape!

Habilidades especiales

Familiar Bluet larvae can breathe underwater using gills that helps them hunt other tiny aquatic creatures.

Familiar Bluets can dart and hover quickly because of their two pairs of independently moving wings that helps them catch flying insects.

Familiar Bluets have huge compound eyes that helps them spot tiny prey insects from far away.

Familiar Bluets appear vibrantly blue because of special pigments that helps them attract mates and define their territory.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 30-50 mm
Tamaño: 25-40 mm
Esperanza de vida: 15-30 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 5-10 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

This tiny hunter eats small flying insects and aquatic creatures.

Diferencias por edad: Larvae are aquatic predators, adults are aerial predators.

Alimentos principales

mosquitoes
gnats
midges
small flies
aquatic insect larvae

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Common House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Helps control populations of nuisance mosquitoes.

eaten by

Green Frog

Lithobates clamitans

A common amphibian predator of adult bluets.

eaten by

Mosquitofish

Gambusia affinis

Eats bluet larvae in aquatic environments.

eaten by

Eastern Kingbird

Tyrannus tyrannus

Insect-eating bird that catches adult damselflies.

shelters

White Water Lily

Nymphaea odorata

Rests on and lays eggs near aquatic plants.

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.