Common blue damselfly
The common blue damselfly is a thin, bright sky blue insect with black markings. It looks like a tiny, delicate dragonfly. Males are blue, while females can be blue, brown or greenish.
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Each of its wings is about 2 centimetres long.
On the side of its body it has just one small black stripe, while other blue damselflies have two.
Some females look like the blue males and others are brown or green, which helps them get less attention from the males.
Its babies shoot out a special lower lip to grab their food.
In cold northern places its babies grow more slowly, so the adults there end up bigger.
Most asked questions about Common blue damselfly
?What is the difference between a damselfly and a dragonfly?
Damselflies like this one are thinner and more delicate than most dragonflies.
?Is the common blue damselfly dangerous?
No. It is completely harmless to people.
?How big is the common blue damselfly?
It is about 3 to 3.5 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Enallagma cyathigerum
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Common bluet
Where the facts come from
- Enallagma cyathigerum (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 Zampel. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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