Swampwatcher
The swampwatcher is a dragonfly with a bluish black chest and a yellow tail with black markings. Its eyes are reddish brown on top and bluish grey underneath. It likes ponds, rice fields and marshes.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Grown up males have a powdery blue coat on the chest and the start of the tail.
The female has little flaps on her tail that may help hold her eggs when she lays them.
It lays its eggs in still water, like small ponds, rice fields and marshes.
It is common in most of the places where it lives.
Most asked questions about Swampwatcher
?Where does the swampwatcher live?
In South and Southeast Asia and Oceania, near ponds, rice fields and marshes.
?What does the swampwatcher look like?
A dragonfly with a bluish black chest and a yellow tail with black markings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Potamarcha congener
- Named by
- Rambur, 1842
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Libellulidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Yellow-tailed ashy skimmer, Common chaser
Where the facts come from
- Potamarcha congener (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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