Slender bluet
The slender bluet is a small blue damselfly with a very thin tail. It flutters along the edges of big ponds and lakes, especially where a forest is close by. Behind its eyes it has two big spots joined by a thin blue line.
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Fun facts
The male has two blue rings near the end of his tail, and the very tip is black.
The female has three blue rings at the end of her tail, with a black bar or T shape on one of them.
It flies from late May to early September, depending on where it lives.
It has many look-alike cousins, so experts look closely at the tip of the tail to tell them apart.
Most asked questions about Slender bluet
?How big is a slender bluet?
About 29 to 32 millimetres long, about as long as a paper clip.
?Where does the slender bluet live?
Along large ponds and lakes in the United States and in Ontario, Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Enallagma traviatum
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Slender bluet (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 Reuven Martin. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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