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Turquoise bluet

Enallagma divagans
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsDragonflies and damselfliesPonds, rivers and shores6 legs

The turquoise bluet is a small, slim damselfly from the United States. Its name tells about its colour, a bright blue-green like the turquoise stone. It belongs to the narrow-winged damselflies.

Lives in
The United States, near ponds and streams
Top speed
about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Flying, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Damselflies have no sting and do not hurt people.
What does it eat?
Like other damselflies, it catches tiny flying insects. Its young live in the water and hunt tiny water animals.
For real!Photo of Turquoise bluet
Picture by Judy Gallagher. CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

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Fun facts

1

It lives only in the United States and nowhere else in the world.

2

It belongs to the narrow-winged damselflies, a big family of thin, often blue damselflies.

3

Scientists checked how it is doing and found that it is not in danger. There are as many of them as there used to be.

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Most asked questions about Turquoise bluet

?Where does the turquoise bluet live?

Only in the United States, near water.

?Is the turquoise bluet dangerous?

No. Damselflies have no sting and are harmless.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Enallagma divagans
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
Family
Coenagrionidae
Classification
Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
Lives on
North America

Where the facts come from

  1. Enallagma divagans (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by Judy Gallagher. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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