Stream Bluet

Enallagma exsulans

The Stream Bluet is a small, colorful dragonfly that loves to flutter around streams and ponds. With its bright blue body, it looks like a tiny jewel dancing in the air!

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Stream Bluet has a slender body, often bright blue in males with distinct black markings on its abdomen. Females are typically duller, ranging from brownish to greenish-tan, making them blend in more with vegetation. Its delicate appearance distinguishes it from stouter dragonflies.

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Stream Bluet

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

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Datos interesantes

A Stream Bluet spends most of its life underwater as a nymph, breathing through gills in its tail!

Damselflies like the Bluet can fly backwards, which helps them maneuver expertly through tight spaces!

Males 'guard' females while they lay eggs, ensuring no other males try to mate with them.

Unlike dragonflies, Stream Bluets hold their wings neatly folded together over their backs when resting.

Habilidades especiales

Stream Bluet nymphs can ambush prey underwater because of their powerful extendable lower lip that helps them snatch small aquatic creatures.

Stream Bluet adults can dart and hover in the air because of their two pairs of independently moving wings, helping them catch flying insects.

Stream Bluets have large compound eyes that help them spot tiny prey and predators from many angles at once.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 40-50 mm
Tamaño: 26-32 mm
Esperanza de vida: 365-730 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 7 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

They are tiny hunters, catching and eating small insects both underwater as nymphs and in the air as adults!

Diferencias por edad: Nymphs hunt aquatic insects underwater, while adults catch flying insects in the air.

Alimentos principales

mosquito larvae
small aquatic insects
mosquitoes
gnats
flies
midges

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Common House Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Adults prey on this common flying insect.

eaten by

Largemouth Bass

Micropterus salmoides

Nymphs are a food source for this freshwater fish.

eaten by

Tree Swallow

Tachycineta bicolor

Adults are preyed upon by these aerial insectivores.

eaten by

American Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Both nymphs and adults can be eaten by this amphibian.

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.