#3676 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Variable Bluet

🇳🇱 Variabele Waterjuffer ·Coenagrion pulchellum

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © marcel-silvius · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Biopix · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Stas & Lana · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Zuid-Holland, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Weerribben National Park, 8355 Giethoorn, Netherlands:© marcel-silvius · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 8395 Steggerda, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 3235 Rockanje, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. Oisterwijk, Netherlands:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 9479 Noordlaren, Nederland:© Gerben ter Haar · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The variable damselfly or variable bluet ( Coenagrion pulchellum ) is a European damselfly. Despite its name, it is not the only blue damselfly prone to variable patterning.

base stats

NL sightings 562iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,785iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 562 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #15 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
11,785 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pierre Léonard Vander Linden in 1825 (201 years ago).