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unusual facts about damselfly


Aechmea paniculigera

The pools of water trapped at the base of its leaves are home to various creatures including young bromeliad crabs and Damselfly.


Cantabrian mythology

Tradition says, in all different variants, that the Caballucos del Diablu (Damselflies, literally "Devil's little horses") and the witches lose their powers after dusk and the curanderos gain control over them; plants as the four-leaf clover, the fruit of the elder berry, the leaves of the willow, the common juniper or the tree heath among others cure and bring happiness if they are collected at dawn.

Carn Ingli

The area also includes several scarce plants, including lichens, and a rare damselfly, Coenagrion mercuriale.

Drepanosticta submontana

Drepanosticta submontana is a species of damselfly in family Platystictidae.

Elattoneura leucostigma

Elattoneura leucostigma is a species of damselfly in family Protoneuridae.

Godrevy Head to St Agnes

The site contains 25 species of butterfly and 15 dragonfly and damselfly species, which include the nationally scarce varieties of silver-studded blue (Plebejus argus) and blue-tailed damselfly (Ischnura pumilio).

Hemiscorpiidae

Their old name is Ischnuridae, which had to be changed due to a naming conflict with the damselfly family of the same name.

Ingrebourne Marshes

There are two nationally rare Red Data Book species, the hoverfly Anasimyia interpuncta and the scarce emerald damselfly Lestes dryas.

Ischnura heterosticta

Ischnura heterosticta, one of at least two species with the common name Common Bluetail, is a common Australian damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae.

Ischnura senegalensis

Ischnura senegalensis, also known variously as Common Bluetail, Marsh Bluetail, Ubiquitous Bluetail, African Bluetail, and Senegal Golden Dartlet, is a widespread damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae, native from Africa, through the Middle East, throughout southern and eastern Asia.

Pennsylvania Fields, Sedbury

Several species of damselfly flourish along the draining ditches include the Azure Damselfly.

Ventongimps Moor

The nationally rare Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly (Ischnura pumilio) is one of the 13 species of dragonfly and damselfly that the ponds on the moor supports.

Wiretail

Rhadinosticta, also called the Powdered Wiretail, a species of damselfly


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