Blue basker
Urothemis edwardsii
The blue basker is a dragonfly that lives all over Africa. It zooms over lakes and marshes hunting for small insects. Like every dragonfly, it has four see-through wings and big round eyes.
Lives in
Africa, from Egypt and Algeria to South Africa, at lakes and marshes
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Dragonflies do not sting and leave people alone.
What does it eat?
It catches small flying insects in the air. Its young live in the water and hunt there.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Blue basker about 40 km/h (25 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives in more than 30 African countries.
2
It even lives at lakes and marshes that dry up for part of the year.
3
It belongs to the skimmers, the biggest family of dragonflies.
you asked
Most asked questions about Blue basker
?Where does the blue basker live?
In Africa, at freshwater lakes and marshes in more than 30 countries.
?Is the blue basker dangerous?
No. Dragonflies do not sting and are harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Urothemis edwardsii
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Libellulidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Urothemis edwardsii (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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