Blue Dasher
Pachydiplax longipennis
The young blue dasher lives as an aquatic nymph in ponds, marshes, and slow edges of lakes, clinging to vegetation or bottom debris. It is an ambush predator that seizes mosquito larvae, small aquatic insects, and tiny crustaceans with a hinged lower lip. Its mottled body helps it stay hidden among mud and plant stems. Before adulthood, it crawls from the water and splits its skin to emerge as a winged dragonfly.
- Type
- Stealth / Water
- Conservation status
- LC
Growth chain
- ?
- Blue Dasher