Vesper bluet
Enallagma vesperum
The vesper bluet is a small, slim damselfly from North America. Damselflies are the thinner cousins of dragonflies. Most of them fold their wings over their backs when they rest.
Lives in
Southern Canada and the central and eastern United States, near water
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Dragonflies and damselflies have no sting, so just watch it fly.
What does it eat?
It catches small flying insects such as midges and mosquitoes. Its young live under water and hunt tiny water animals.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Vesper bluet about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It belongs to the narrow-winged damselflies, a family of slim damselflies.
2
There are plenty of them, and scientists say their numbers are steady.
3
Its young live under water before they climb out and get their wings.
you asked
Most asked questions about Vesper bluet
?Where does the vesper bluet live?
In southern Canada and in the central and eastern United States.
?Is the vesper bluet dangerous?
No. Damselflies have no sting and are harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Enallagma vesperum
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Enallagma vesperum (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 Ken-ichi Ueda. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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