Tule Bluet

Enallagma carunculatum

The Tule Bluet is a small, beautiful dragonfly with bright blue colors. They love to flutter around wetlands and ponds, making them fun to watch as they zip through the air.

Hábitat: Wetlands

Aspecto

The Tule Bluet is a small, slender damselfly typically deep blue and black. Males have striking blue markings on their thorax and abdomen, often with a distinct "teardrop" shaped spot on the side of the second abdominal segment. Their large, widely spaced eyes are also blue.

ReinoAnimaliaFiloArthropodaClaseInsectaOrdenOdonataFamiliaCoenagrionidaeGéneroEnallagma

Tule Bluet

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Snaps

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Datos interesantes

Adult Tule Bluets only live for a few weeks, making every sunny day an adventure!

After hatching, a Tule Bluet naiad sheds its skin many times as it gets bigger.

Males have a special blue spot on their belly that helps females recognize them for mating.

Their babies live underwater for months, growing and hunting before they can fly!

Habilidades especiales

Tule Bluet can swiftly catch tiny flying insects with its spiky legs that act like a basket.

Its young (naiads) can breathe underwater using feathery gills at the end of their abdomen.

Tule Bluets can fly forward, backward, and hover silently to ambush unsuspecting prey.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 30-40 mm
Tamaño: 25-33 mm
Esperanza de vida: 14-28 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 7 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

Tiny predators, Tule Bluets feast on smaller insects found near water.

Diferencias por edad: Young Tule Bluets (naiads) hunt aquatic insect larvae and small crustaceans underwater.

Alimentos principales

mosquitoes
gnats
small flies
aphids
mayflies

Método de búsqueda

Pursuit

Conexiones ecológicas

hunts

Mosquito

Culex pipiens

Tule Bluets prey on flying mosquitoes.

eaten by

American Bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Adult Tule Bluets can be a meal for hungry frogs.

eaten by

Mosquitofish

Gambusia affinis

Fish often eat Tule Bluet naiads underwater.

eaten by

Eastern Kingbird

Tyrannus tyrannus

Birds snatch flying adult damselflies.

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.