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At night, the damselflies will return to the same sunlit areas within the vegetation where they started their day. Male beautiful damselflies do not range far from their breeding, hunting, and resting areas, only going a relatively small 20–100 metres (66–328 ft). Females have been observed flying distances of up to 4 miles (6.4 km) per day.
Local social media sites were buzzing with questions and reported sightings of a string of lights in the night sky over the South Shore on Sunday. The lights were coming from Starlink satellites ...
Damselflies have formed subjects for personal jewellery such as brooches since at least 1880. [68] Damselfly is a 2005 short film directed by Ben O'Connor. [69] Damselfly is the title of a 2012 novel in the Faeble series by S. L. Naeole [70] and of a 2018 novel by Chandra Prasad. [71]
Calopterygidae is a family of damselflies, in the suborder Zygoptera. [2] They are commonly known as the broad-winged damselflies, [3] demoiselles, or jewelwings. [4] These rather large damselflies have wingspans of 50–80 mm (compared to about 44 mm in the common bluetail damselfly, Ischnura elegans), are often metallic-coloured, and can be differentiated from other damselflies by the ...
The final segment of the abdomen is blue below and black above, while segments 8 and 9 are all blue. Females and immatures are tan to olive or brown, but like the mature males they have the divided shoulder stripe. These damselflies are most typically found alongside lakes and ponds, but are occasionally found next to slow-moving streams, too.
This damselfly is active between March and November, and adults are known to live over 30 days, a relatively long adult life for damselflies. This species occurs in coastal regions of the Bay Area; it is thought that its long life and long flight season are adaptations to the foggy climate of the region.
As four fires grew in Southern California, new satellite images show their scale and the amount of smoke pouring east. The Line, Bridge, Airport and Roblar fires , all of which began in the past ...
The northern bluet is a small damselfly with a length of 1 to 1.6 inches (26 to 40 mm) long. The male is predominantly blue on the sides of its thorax, and the upper side of its abdomen. [3] Its lower abdominal appendages are longer than its upper appendages. The female's body is greenish-yellow to brown color.