Arroyo bluet
The arroyo bluet is a thin blue damselfly from the dry southwest of North America. The male has blue eyes with a turquoise spot above each one, shaped like a raindrop. Its long blue tail has a row of black stripes along the top.
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Fun facts
The female can be tan or light blue, and her legs are light brown instead of black.
To lay her eggs, the female climbs under water onto floating plants. The male waits above the water and keeps guard.
You can see it flying from March all the way to October.
It lives from the seashore up to about 1,400 metres high in the hills.
Most asked questions about Arroyo bluet
?What does the arroyo bluet look like?
The male is bright blue with black marks on its tail and blue eyes with turquoise spots above them.
?Where can you find the arroyo bluet?
Near slow streams, ponds and lake edges with plants, in the western United States and Mexico.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Enallagma praevarum
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Arroyo bluet (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 Eugene Zelenko. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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