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Description: Brilliant metallic blue body. Wings are less abruptly narrowed than those of other damselflies and also differ from them in being coloured. Females have greenish-yellow tinged wings, but the male (pictured) has an obvious dark blueish-black area of colouration on both fore and hind wings. The males indulge in prolonged fluttering courtship displays and the insects almost always breed in running water.
Food and Habits: Catches prey in flight or on leaves of foliage or even from spiders webs.
Habitat and Range: Fairly widespread throughout the UK, although there is a feeling that numbers have declined in recent years.
Similar species: Calopteryx virgo, the Beautiful Demoiselle, differing in that the male wings are almost completely coloured and the female's wings are brownish tinged. |
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