Yellow featherlegs
Copera marginipes
The yellow featherlegs is a slim damselfly from Asia. It has yellow eyes with brown caps and a thin black band around them. Its tail is black with bluish white rings and a pale blue tip.
Lives in
Asia, where it is common and widespread
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot sting and does not bite people.
What does it eat?
It catches small flying insects to eat.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Yellow featherlegs 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
Young ones of both boys and girls can be almost all white with a few black marks.
2
The female is sturdier than the male and has duller colours.
3
It likes to hide among the plants along the banks of rivers and streams.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow featherlegs
?Where does the yellow featherlegs live?
In Asia, among plants along rivers and streams.
?Is the yellow featherlegs dangerous?
No. It is a harmless damselfly that hunts tiny insects.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Copera marginipes
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Platycnemididae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Platycnemididae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Yellow bush dart
Where the facts come from
- Copera marginipes (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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