Emma's dancer
Argia emma
Emma's dancer is a damselfly from North America. Damselflies are the slim, delicate cousins of dragonflies. It belongs to a group called dancers, which have narrow wings.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Damselflies do not sting or bite people.
What does it eat?
It catches small flying insects. Its babies grow up in water and hunt there.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Emma's dancer about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
There are plenty of Emma's dancers, and scientists say their numbers are staying the same.
2
Like other damselflies, it starts life as a baby living under water.
3
When it rests, a damselfly usually holds its wings together over its back, not spread out like a dragonfly.
you asked
Most asked questions about Emma's dancer
?Is Emma's dancer dangerous?
No. Damselflies do not sting or bite, and they eat small flying insects.
?Where does Emma's dancer live?
In North America, near water.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argia emma
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Argia emma (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 Scott Loarie. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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