Tule bluet
The tule bluet is a slim damselfly with a blue and black tail, usually with more black than blue. It lives by water where tall bulrushes grow, which people in America call tules. That is where its name comes from.
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Fun facts
It can even live in salty water.
After mating, the male holds on to the female while she lays her eggs inside bulrush stems.
Males guard their own patch of good egg-laying places.
Sometimes it picks tiny aphids right off plants.
Most asked questions about Tule bluet
?Is the tule bluet dangerous?
No. Damselflies do not sting, and this one eats mosquitoes.
?What does the tule bluet eat?
Small flying insects such as mosquitoes and flies. Its young eat tiny water insects.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Enallagma carunculatum
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Tule bluet (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 Eugene Zelenko. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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