#3668 · 🪽 dragonflies & damselflies

Common Blue Damselfly

🇳🇱 Watersnuffel ·Enallagma cyathigerum

LCleast concern 🪽 Dragonflies & damselflies 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © frankielee91 · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Diego González Dopico · CC BY 4.0
3. © Dmitry Ivanov · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Paul Lewis · CC BY 4.0
5. © Fabrice Prugnaud · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Theo Rickert · CC BY 4.0
8. © Erland Refling Nielsen · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Enallagma cyathigerum ( common blue damselfly , common bluet , or northern bluet ) is a species found mainly between latitudes 40°N and 72°N. 4 in). It is common in many different countries including Russia, Europe and South Korea. Damselflies are an important link between the health of the aquatic ecosystem and its response to climate change.

base stats

NL sightings 1,003iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 45,062iNaturalist 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 1,003 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #7 most seen of the dragonflies & damselflies in NL.
45,062 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Toussaint von Charpentier in 1840 (186 years ago).