Red-tailed Pennant

Brachymesia furcata

The Red-tailed Pennant is a colorful dragonfly with bright red and yellow markings. It loves to fly around sunny areas near water, showing off its beautiful wings.

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Red-tailed Pennant is a medium-sized dragonfly with a distinct reddish-orange abdomen on males, while females are duller yellowish-brown. Its clear wings feature a prominent dark spot (stigma) near the tip, and the thorax often displays yellowish streaks.

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Red-tailed Pennant

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

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Datos interesantes

Adult Red-tailed Pennants can catch and eat tiny insects while flying at top speed!

Their underwater nymphs breathe through gills inside their abdomen, a unique survival trick!

These dragonflies are ancient, with fossils showing they have existed for over 300 million years!

They help clean the air by eating thousands of flying pests, keeping nature in balance!

Habilidades especiales

Red-tailed Pennant can hover and fly backwards because of powerful wing muscles that help them hunt agile prey.

Red-tailed Pennant has enormous compound eyes that allow them to see almost 360 degrees, helping spot tiny flying insects.

Red-tailed Pennant nymphs can blend into murky water because of their cryptic coloration that hides them from fish predators.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 60-85 mm
Tamaño: 35-50 mm
Esperanza de vida: 30-90 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 35 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

Red-tailed Pennants are aerial hunters that feast on small flying insects like mosquitoes and flies.

Diferencias por edad: Nymphs eat aquatic invertebrates and small fish, while adults eat flying insects.

Alimentos principales

mosquitoes
midges
flies
gnats
small moths
butterflies

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

eaten by

Eastern Kingbird

Tyrannus tyrannus

Adult dragonflies are a food source for various bird species.

eaten by

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

Dragonfly nymphs are prey for many freshwater fish species.

eats

Common House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Adult Red-tailed Pennants consume numerous mosquitoes.

eats

Non-biting Midge

Chironomus plumosus

Dragonflies actively hunt and consume swarms of midges.

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.