About theBlue Dasher

Blue Dasher

Pachydiplax longipennis

Native 

Status: Common

Size: medium

Length - 32 - 42 mm

Wing span - 50 - 60 mm

Eye color - male: turquoise; female: red with green and black below

Face color - white with black "nose"

Thorax color - male: pruinose blue, striped blue and white thorax; female: yellow and black

Abdomen color - male: pruinose blue tapering to black at tail; female: yellow and black

Stigma color - dark

Wing color - clear with a patch of amber near the body on the hind wing

Habitat - slow streams and ponds

Behavior - perches with wings held forward or flat

Flight period - March - November

Range - southern British Columbia east to Ontario, extending south through the U.S. from southern California east to Florida and in the Bahamas.

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