Prairie Bluet - Male

 Prairie Bluet

 

 

Common Name:  Prairie Bluet

Latin Name:  Coenagrion angulatum

Length:  27 mm

Range: Throughout Alberta

Habitat:  Marshes, ponds, slow streams

Time of year seen:  May to September

Diet: Insects

Male (blue) and female (green) Prairie Bluets
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Location: Cochrane, AB
Date: Jul. 10, 2005

Note pattern on abdomen - black with thin blue bands getting thinner to tip.
Note curved black stripe on top of 2nd abdominal segment