Oriental blue dasher
The oriental blue dasher is a dragonfly from Asia. The male is powder blue with a dark tip on its tail, and its wings have a golden brown base. The female is brownish yellow.
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Fun facts
The male's back wing is about 24 to 27 millimetres long.
You see the males more often, because they guard their own patch of water.
The female lays eggs by flicking a little blob of eggs out of the water onto rocks and plants.
It can live in many kinds of wet places, even a bit salty or messy water.
Most asked questions about Oriental blue dasher
?What colour is the oriental blue dasher?
The male is powder blue with a dark tail tip. The female is brownish yellow.
?Where does the oriental blue dasher live?
In eastern Asia, from India to Japan and Indonesia, near ponds and other water.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Brachydiplax chalybea
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Libellulidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Yellow-patched lieutenant, Rufous-backed marsh hawk, Blue dasher
Where the facts come from
- Brachydiplax chalybea (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 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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