Spotted darter
The spotted darter is a small dragonfly. The male has a flat orange tail with a row of drop-shaped spots along each side. Its tail is widest at the end, like a little club.
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Fun facts
It lays its eggs in pools that dry up in autumn and fill up again in spring when the snow melts.
It also likes rice fields and fish ponds, where people let the water come and go.
Grown-ups fly in late summer, and they are not very strong flyers.
In Europe it is getting rarer, because farming has changed, so it is listed as vulnerable there.
Most asked questions about Spotted darter
?How big is the spotted darter?
It is about 29 to 34 millimetres long.
?Is the spotted darter rare?
In Europe it is getting rarer and is listed as vulnerable.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sympetrum depressiusculum
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Libellulidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Sympetrum depressiusculum (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 Andreas Thomas Hein. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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