Amanda's pennant
Amanda's pennant is a small dragonfly from the warm southeast of the United States. It has a yellow face and a dark body with yellow or red markings. At the base of its back wings it has amber patches with a black stripe.
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Fun facts
Each of its back wings is about 21 to 27 millimetres long.
The face of an older male slowly darkens from yellow to brown or red.
It lives in marshes and calm waters with lots of plants poking out of the water.
Most asked questions about Amanda's pennant
?How big is Amanda's pennant?
It is about 24 to 31 millimetres long, roughly as long as your thumb.
?Where does Amanda's pennant live?
In the southeastern United States, around marshes and calm water full of plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Celithemis amanda
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Libellulidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Amanda's pennant (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 Eric Haley. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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