Pin-Tailed Pondhawk

erythemis plebeja

The Pin-Tailed Pondhawk is a vibrant dragonfly known for its beautiful blue and green colors. It loves to flutter around ponds and lakes, making it a fun sight for kids to watch!

Hábitat: Freshwater ponds, lakes, and marshes

Aspecto

The Pin-Tailed Pondhawk is a small, dark dragonfly, often appearing black with a pruinose blue thorax in mature males. Its slender, tapering abdomen gives it a distinctive 'pin-tail' appearance, and females typically display yellow spots along their dark body.

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Pin-Tailed Pondhawk

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

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Datos interesantes

Dragonflies have been flying for over 300 million years, even before the dinosaurs!

Pin-Tailed Pondhawk nymphs can live underwater for years before becoming flying adults!

Pin-Tailed Pondhawks eat mosquitoes, helping to keep those pesky biters in check!

They catch prey with their legs in a 'basket' while flying!

Habilidades especiales

Pin-Tailed Pondhawk can fly in any direction, even backwards, because of its two pairs of independently moving wings.

Pin-Tailed Pondhawk nymphs breathe underwater using gills, allowing them to live and hunt submerged.

Pin-Tailed Pondhawk larvae have an extendable jaw, a labium, that helps them snatch unsuspecting prey.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 50-75 mm
Tamaño: 35-45 mm
Esperanza de vida: 30-60 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 25 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

They are aerial predators, catching small flying insects.

Diferencias por edad: Nymphs hunt aquatic insects and tadpoles; adults hunt flying insects.

Alimentos principales

Mosquitoes
Gnats
Flies
Small Moths
Midges

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Yellow Fever Mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Adults prey on them in flight.

eaten by

Eastern Kingbird

Tyrannus tyrannus

Birds snatch them from the air or perches.

eaten by

Bluegill

Lepomis macrochirus

Fish prey on pondhawk nymphs underwater.

hunts

American Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Nymphs ambush tadpoles in the water.

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.