Three striped blue dart
The three striped blue dart is a damselfly from tropical Asia. The male has a sky blue tail and bluish green eyes with a tiny black dot on top. Its chest has thin black stripes running along it.
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Fun facts
The female is much duller than the male, with a black stripe all the way down her tail.
Its wings are see-through, with a small diamond-shaped spot near each tip.
It lays its eggs in slow, marshy streams and lakes in the lowlands.
It usually stays in the lowlands and is only seen in the hills when it is travelling.
Most asked questions about Three striped blue dart
?Is the three striped blue dart dangerous?
No. Damselflies have no sting and are harmless to people.
?Where does the three striped blue dart live?
In many warm countries in Asia, along slow streams, marshes and lakes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pseudagrion decorum
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Elegant sprite
Where the facts come from
- Pseudagrion decorum (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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