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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.

生息地: Wetlands

外見

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.

AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaOdonataCoenagrionidaeEnallagma
Tule Bluet
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Tule Bluet

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

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!

特殊能力

能力

Swift Snatcher

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

能力

Underwater Breath

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

能力

Acrobat Flier

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

サイズと詳細

翼開長
30-40 mm
サイズ
25-33 mm
寿命
14-28 日
飛行速度
7 km/h
脚の数
6

食性と食事

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

年齢による違い: Young Tule Bluets (naiads) hunt aquatic insect larvae and small crustaceans underwater.

主な食物

  • mosquitoes
  • gnats
  • small flies
  • aphids
  • mayflies

採餌方法

  • Pursuit

生態系とのつながり

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.

特徴

別名

まだ別名はありません。

コレクション

安全性

危険度

1/5 · 非常に低い

Always watch dragonflies from a distance so you don't scare them away.

よくある質問

Tule Bluetの翼開長は何ですか?

30-40 mm

Tule Bluetのサイズは何ですか?

25-33 mm

Tule Bluetの寿命は何ですか?

14-28 日

Tule Bluetの飛行速度は何ですか?

7 km/h

Tule Bluetは何を食べますか?

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

Tule Bluetは通常どこに生息していますか?

Wetlands

Tule Bluetはどのように狩りをしますか?

Pursuit

Tule Bluetの脚の数は何ですか?

6

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