Taiga Bluet

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Location: Cochrane, AB
Date: July 14, 2007

                        

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Common Name:  Taiga Bluet

Latin Name:  Coenagrion resolutum
                        (R. Bercha, det.)

Length:  30 mm

Range: Throughout Alberta

Habitat:  Sedge marshes and peat lands

Time of year seen:  May to September

Diet: Insects

Other:  The male Taiga bluet has blue stripes on the top of its abdomen with no markings on the underside.  The top of the second abdominal segment has a distinct black "U" shaped marking.  The female Taiga is yellow-green or tan to blue with the tops of abdominal segments 8, 9 and 10 being colored black. (Cannings, 2002)