Aurora bluetail
Ischnura aurora
Name means: “slender tail and dawn: Ischnura means thin tail, and aurora is Latin for dawn”
The aurora bluetail is a tiny apple green damselfly. The male has a bright reddish yellow tail with a blue tip. Behind its eyes it has two little sky blue spots.
Lives in
Australia, the Pacific islands and East and Southeast Asia, near ponds, rivers and rice fields
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting or bite people.
What does it eat?
It catches tiny flying insects. Its babies live in the water and hunt small water animals.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Aurora bluetail 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
The spots on its front wings are rose red, but on its back wings they are pale grey.
2
Its eyes have a dark cap on top, like a half moon.
3
The female has no blue on her tail.
4
Its first name, Ischnura, means thin tail.
you asked
Most asked questions about Aurora bluetail
?Where does the aurora bluetail live?
Near ponds, rivers, canals, marshes and rice fields in Australia, Asia and the Pacific islands.
?Is the aurora bluetail dangerous?
No. It is a tiny, harmless damselfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ischnura aurora
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia
- Also known as
- Gossamer damselfly, Golden dartlet
Where the facts come from
- Ischnura aurora (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 Donald Hobern. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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