Insect Orders
The Coenagrionidae Family: Damselfies
Enallagma civile
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Ischnura verticalis
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Enallagma civile
- Common Name: Common Bluet
- Identifying Features: Indistinct or absent eye pattern
- Time of Year Found: Most common in the early summer but found all year
- Size of Mature Nymph: 2.5cm
- Habitat: Submergent vegetation
- Other Information: Swims by wiggling its body horizontally
- Figures:
a. Mature Nymph
b. Adult male (blue) and female (tan) mating on a cattail. Picture by Julie Craves
Ischnura verticalis
- Common Name: Eastern Forktail
- Identifying Features: Horizontal banded eye pattern
- Time of Year Found: All year
- Size of Mature Nymph: 1.5cm
- Habitat: Submergent vegetation
- Other Information: Adults were observed to migrate away from the pond and live in nearby prairie areas
- Figures:
c. Mature nymph
d. Adult male