探検昆虫

Aztec Dancer

Argia nahuana

The Aztec Dancer is a beautiful dragonfly with bright colors. It loves to flutter around near water, showing off its amazing flying skills. Watching it dance in the air is like seeing a tiny rainbow!

生息地: Wetlands

外見

The Aztec Dancer is a slender damselfly, usually bright blue with black markings on its abdomen and thorax, especially in males. Its clear, delicate wings are held together over its back when resting, unlike dragonflies. Females are typically duller, often greenish-brown or bluish-gray.

AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaOdonataCoenagrionidaeArgia
Aztec Dancer
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Aztec Dancer

カテゴリ

昆虫

レア度

Common

危険度

1/5 · 非常に低い

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おもしろい事実

Aztec Dancer babies live underwater for months or even years before flying!

Male Aztec Dancers perform dazzling aerial dances to attract a mate!

They can eat hundreds of tiny annoying mosquitoes in just one day!

When an Aztec Dancer grows up, it leaves its old skin behind clinging to a plant!

特殊能力

能力

Acrobatic Flight

Aztec Dancer can quickly change direction in mid-air because of its agile wings that help them hunt flying insects.

能力

Underwater Hunter

Its nymphs (young Aztec Dancers) can breathe underwater using gills that helps them hunt tiny aquatic prey.

能力

360-Degree Vision

Aztec Dancer has huge compound eyes that helps them spot prey and predators from almost any direction.

能力

Stealthy Tracker

Aztec Dancer can dart quickly through dense vegetation because of its slender body, helping it evade predators.

サイズと詳細

翼開長
40-55 mm
サイズ
30-38 mm
寿命
30-60 日
飛行速度
10 km/h
脚の数
6

食性と食事

Tiny flying insects are on the menu for this speedy hunter, keeping mosquito populations in check!

年齢による違い: Young Aztec Dancers (nymphs) eat aquatic insects, while adults hunt flying insects in the air.

主な食物

  • mosquitoes
  • gnats
  • small flies
  • midges
  • mayflies

採餌方法

  • Pursuit

生態系とのつながり

hunts

common mosquito

Culex pipiens

Adults help control mosquito populations.

eaten by

common green darner

Anax junius

Larger dragonflies sometimes prey on smaller damselflies.

eaten by

American bullfrog

Lithobates catesbeianus

Frogs prey on adult damselflies near water.

eaten by

western mosquitofish

Gambusia affinis

Fish eat damselfly nymphs in the water.

特徴

別名

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コレクション

安全性

危険度

1/5 · 非常に低い

Be gentle and quiet when watching dragonflies so you don't scare them away.

よくある質問

Aztec Dancerの翼開長は何ですか?

40-55 mm

Aztec Dancerのサイズは何ですか?

30-38 mm

Aztec Dancerの寿命は何ですか?

30-60 日

Aztec Dancerの飛行速度は何ですか?

10 km/h

Aztec Dancerは何を食べますか?

Tiny flying insects are on the menu for this speedy hunter, keeping mosquito populations in check!

Aztec Dancerは通常どこに生息していますか?

Wetlands

Aztec Dancerはどのように狩りをしますか?

Pursuit

Aztec Dancerの脚の数は何ですか?

6

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