Sooty dancer
Argia lugens
The sooty dancer is a damselfly from North and Central America. Damselflies are the slim, delicate cousins of dragonflies. Its name tells you it is dark, like soot from a chimney.
Lives in
North America and Central 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)
Sooty 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 sooty dancers, and scientists say their numbers are staying the same.
2
Dancers are a group of damselflies with narrow wings.
3
Like other damselflies, it starts life as a baby living under water.
you asked
Most asked questions about Sooty dancer
?Is the sooty dancer dangerous?
No. Damselflies do not sting or bite, and they eat small flying insects.
?Where does the sooty dancer live?
In North America and Central America, near water.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argia lugens
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Coenagrionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Coenagrionidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Argia lugens (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 JerryFriedman. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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