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Blue-ringed Dancer 50D0005558

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Blue-ringed Dancer (Argia sedula), male. Photographed in Boyce Park, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Length: 31-36 mm.

Identification: male has black abdomen with blue rings. Resembles a bluet, but abdominal segment 2 mostly black, has wide black, forked, shoulder stripe. Thorax of male darkens during tandem oviposition. Some southern populations have slight tinting in wings. Female is brown, rather weakly marked.

Range: southern two-thirds of US, with a small "hump" in the northeast that reaches into southern Ontario and Michigan. More common southward in east.

Habitat: rivers, streams, lakes, ditches with aquatic vegetation. Perch often on vegetation in shade, unlike most other dancers.

Food: Predatory on small insects.

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Image size
3939x3030px 2.73 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 50D
Shutter Speed
1/332 second
Aperture
F/9.0
Focal Length
100 mm
ISO Speed
250
Date Taken
Jul 26, 2009, 11:03:47 AM
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IggyHazard's avatar
Colossal blue eyes!