Large Red Damselfly

Pyrrhosoma nymphula

The Large Red Damselfly is a beautiful insect with bright red and black colors. It loves to flutter around near water, showing off its delicate wings in the sunshine.

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Large Red Damselfly is a striking insect with a bright, fiery red body, especially on its abdomen, which features subtle black markings. It has four delicate, clear wings that are often tinged with amber near their base, and its prominent eyes are a reddish-brown hue.

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Large Red Damselfly

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

Baby damselflies live underwater for up to two years!

Large Red Damselflies perform a unique 'mating wheel' shape!

Their clear wings can beat over 30 times a second!

They spend almost their whole adult life looking for food.

Habilidades especiales

Large Red Damselflies have huge compound eyes that help them spot tiny flying insects in many directions at once.

Large Red Damselflies can quickly grab small flying insects with their spiky legs, helping them secure a meal during flight.

Young Large Red Damselflies (nymphs) have external, feathery gills at their tail, which helps them breathe underwater.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 45-50 mm
Tamaño: 33-36 mm
Esperanza de vida: 14-21 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 15 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

These hungry hunters gobble up tiny flying insects like gnats and midges!

Diferencias por edad: Larvae (nymphs) eat tiny aquatic insects and crustaceans; adults eat flying insects.

Alimentos principales

Gnats
Midges
Mosquitoes
Small flies
Aphids

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Midge

Chironomus plumosus

a common tiny fly caught for food

eaten by

Common Frog

Rana temporaria

a quick meal for hungry amphibians

eaten by

Emperor Dragonfly

Anax imperator

larger predatory dragonflies occasionally hunt them

eaten by

Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

their larvae provide food for fish

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.