Olive Clubtail

Stylurus olivaceus

The Olive Clubtail is a special dragonfly with a long, slender body and beautiful olive-green colors. They love to fly around near water and are great at catching insects in the air!

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Olive Clubtail has a distinctive olive-green thorax and a dark abdomen with yellowish stripes. Its namesake 'club' refers to the widened segments at the end of its abdomen, making it visually distinct from many other slender dragonflies.

ReinoAnimaliaFiloArthropodaClaseInsectaOrdenOdonataFamiliaGomphidaeGéneroStylurus

Olive Clubtail

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

Adults catch flying insects using their spiky legs like a net while flying incredibly fast!

Dragonflies like the Olive Clubtail are ancient, flying the Earth even before dinosaurs roamed!

Its underwater larva can live for years, breathing with gills before transforming into an adult!

They are great indicators of healthy, clean freshwater ecosystems because of their sensitive larvae!

Habilidades especiales

Olive Clubtail has incredible wrap-around compound eyes that help them spot tiny prey and predators from almost any direction.

Olive Clubtail can hover, fly backward, and turn on a dime because of its independently controlled wings, allowing precise aerial hunting.

Olive Clubtail has an olive-green body that helps them blend perfectly with riparian vegetation, making them nearly invisible.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 60-85 mm
Tamaño: 40-55 mm
Esperanza de vida: 30-90 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 30-50 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

A fierce aerial hunter, it munches on smaller insects it snatches from the sky.

Diferencias por edad: Larvae hunt aquatic invertebrates like tadpoles and insect larvae; adults eat flying insects.

Alimentos principales

mosquitoes
flies
midges
moths

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Common Mosquito

Culex pipiens

adults actively hunt them in flight

eaten by

American Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

adults are prey for this amphibian

eaten by

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

larvae are a food source for fish

Rasgos

Camuflado

El camuflaje describe a los organismos que poseen colores o patrones que les permiten mezclarse con su entorno.

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.