Dainty damselfly
The dainty damselfly is a slim blue damselfly that hunts over ponds. Boys and girls look different: the males are bright blue, while the females are mostly black near the end of the body. It is small, but it can fly from pond to pond to find a new home.
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Fun facts
Its back wings are 15 to 20 millimetres long.
It likes still ponds full of water plants and is happy in ponds without fish, where its young are safe.
In Britain people thought it had vanished after a big flood in 1953, but it was found again in Kent in 2010, 57 years later.
As the climate warms, it is spreading north. In the 1990s its northern edge was in northern France.
It is easy to mix up with the common blue damselfly.
Most asked questions about Dainty damselfly
?How big is the dainty damselfly?
It is 30 to 33 millimetres long.
?Where can I see a dainty damselfly?
At still, weedy ponds, most easily in June and July, when males perch on floating plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Coenagrion scitulum
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Dainty bluet
Where the facts come from
- Dainty damselfly (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 Gilles San Martin. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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