Eastern amberwing
The eastern amberwing is a tiny dragonfly, not longer than about 2.5 centimetres. The boys have shiny orange wings, like amber or honey. It has yellow and brown stripes and even wiggles like a wasp to fool hungry animals.
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Fun facts
It is one of the only dragonflies that pretends to be a wasp.
When it sits, it wiggles its body and wings just like a wasp would.
When a girl comes along, the boy leads her to the egg-laying spot he chose and hovers over it with whirring wings.
Both boys and girls have a small red spot near the tip of each wing.
Most asked questions about Eastern amberwing
?Can the eastern amberwing sting?
No. It looks and moves like a wasp, but it is a harmless dragonfly.
?How big is the eastern amberwing?
It is very small for a dragonfly, no more than about 25 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Perithemis tenera
- Group
- Dragonflies and damselflies
- Family
- Libellulidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Odonata > Libellulidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Eastern amberwing (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by MacUSER230. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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