Snaketails

Ophiogomphus

Snaketails are special dragonflies that look like snakes! They have long, slender bodies and colorful wings. You can often find them near water, where they love to fly and hunt for food.

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Snaketails is a slender dragonfly typically adorned with striking yellow and black stripes along its body. Its large, clear wings are held out to the sides at rest, and its widely separated eyes distinguish it from other dragonfly families.

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Snaketails

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Snaps

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Datos interesantes

An adult Snaketail's entire head is almost entirely made of its two huge eyes!

Baby Snaketails (nymphs) live in water for years before becoming flying adults!

Some Snaketails are named after rivers where they were first discovered!

They catch other insects mid-air using their spiky legs like a basket!

Habilidades especiales

Snaketails have massive compound eyes that help them spot tiny insect prey from far away.

Young Snaketails can breathe underwater using gills inside their rectum, helping them survive as larvae.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 50-80 mm
Tamaño: 35-65 mm
Esperanza de vida: 20-60 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 15 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

Snaketails are fierce hunters, eating many kinds of smaller insects, both as larvae and adults.

Diferencias por edad: Larvae (nymphs) are ambush predators of aquatic invertebrates; adults actively hunt flying insects.

Alimentos principales

mosquitoes
midges
flies
mayflies
caddisflies

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Lake Midge

Chironomus plumosus

Adults capture and eat these flying insects for energy.

hunts

Olives Mayfly

Baetis rhodani

Nymphs ambush these tiny aquatic insects in streams.

eaten by

Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

Trout often prey on the aquatic Snaketail nymphs.

eaten by

Barn Swallow

Hirundo rustica

Swallows are agile hunters of adult Snaketails in flight.

Rasgos

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.