#3742 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Familiar Bluet

Enallagma civile

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Bill Carrell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © ronthill · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Gordon Johnston · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Jim Lemon · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Iowa, US:© evangrimes · CC BY 4.0
7. MacLaren Pond, Fundy NP, Albert County, NB, Canada:© Denis Doucet · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Newington, CT, USA:© Andrew Hrycyna · CC BY 4.0
9. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, 175-10 Cross Bay Blvd, Queens, NY 11693, USA:© tomas_kay · CC BY 4.0
10. Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, NY, USA:© matthew_wills · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The familiar bluet ( Enallagma civile ) is a damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae, native to much of the United States and southern Canada.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 47,236iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
47,236 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1861 (165 years ago).