Blue-spotted hawker
Adversaeschna brevistyla
Name means: “short stakes, after the short little points at the end of its tail”
The blue-spotted hawker is a large dragonfly from Australia and New Zealand. It has two bright blue stripes on its body and pale orange front edges on its wings. Grown-up males have blue eyes and females have brown eyes.
Lives in
Australia, New Zealand and some Pacific islands, near ponds and marshes
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Dragonflies do not sting.
What does it eat?
Like all dragonflies, it catches flying insects. Its young live in water and hunt there.
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)
Blue-spotted hawker about 40 km/h (25 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is the only dragonfly in its group of the dragonfly family tree.
2
It likes still water but also visits calm streams and plants far away from water.
3
It is not in danger of disappearing.
you asked
Most asked questions about Blue-spotted hawker
?Where does the blue-spotted hawker live?
In Australia, New Zealand and some Pacific islands.
?Can the blue-spotted hawker sting?
No. Dragonflies have no stinger and are harmless.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Adversaeschna brevistyla
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Aeshnidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Aeshnidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Lancer dragonfly
Where the facts come from
- Blue-spotted hawker (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 JJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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