Brown-backed red marsh hawk
Orthetrum chrysis
The brown-backed red marsh hawk is a dragonfly with a dark chest and a blood red tail. The female looks different, with a yellowish brown tail. It lives near pools and marshes in Asia.
Lives in
Many countries in Asia, near pools and marshes
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting and it is not dangerous to people.
What does it eat?
It catches flying insects in the air. Its babies grow up in the water and hunt small water animals.
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)
Brown-backed red marsh hawk about 40 km/h (25 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lays its eggs in pools and marshes.
2
It looks almost exactly like another dragonfly, and you can only tell them apart by the colour of the tail.
3
It is a medium sized dragonfly.
you asked
Most asked questions about Brown-backed red marsh hawk
?Is the brown-backed red marsh hawk dangerous?
No. It is a harmless dragonfly.
?Where does the brown-backed red marsh hawk live?
In many Asian countries, near pools and marshes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Orthetrum chrysis
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Libellulidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Spine-tufted skimmer
Where the facts come from
- Orthetrum chrysis (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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