Ferruginous glider
Tramea limbata
The ferruginous glider is a medium-sized red dragonfly with a very long pair of tail tips. It has a dark brown patch at the bottom of its back wings. It is a great traveller that flies far over Africa and Asia.
Lives in
Africa south of the Sahara, Madagascar, southern Arabia and southern Asia, near ponds and marshes
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Dragonflies have no sting. Just watch it fly.
What does it eat?
It catches small flying insects in the air. Its babies live under water and hunt there too.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Ferruginous glider about 40 km/h (25 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is a migrant, which means it travels long distances.
2
The female looks like the male, but she can be red like him or yellowish.
3
It lays its eggs in open pools, ponds and grassy marshes.
4
On sunny days it patrols back and forth over the water and open ground.
you asked
Most asked questions about Ferruginous glider
?Where does the ferruginous glider live?
In Africa, Madagascar, southern Arabia and southern Asia, near ponds and marshes.
?Is the ferruginous glider dangerous?
No. Dragonflies have no sting and are harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tramea limbata
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Libellulidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Black marsh trotter, Voyaging glider
Where the facts come from
- Tramea limbata (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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