| Marsh bluet | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Odonata |
| Suborder: | Zygoptera |
| Family: | Coenagrionidae |
| Genus: | Enallagma |
| Species: | E. ebrium |
| Binomial name | |
| Enallagma ebrium (Hagen, 1861) | |
Themarsh bluet (Enallagma ebrium) is adamselfly species in thefamilyCoenagrionidae.
Marsh bluets are usually found near lowland lakes, ponds, and marshes, and has a definite preference for alkaline waters.
It is a smaller species of bluets, with a size of 25–34 mm (0.98–1.34 in) in length.[1]
Marsh bluets perch occasionally on vegetation in the area with the wings together. Their flight pattern is slow. They dart in and out of emergent vegetation.
The marsh bluet is active early June to early September.
Marsh bluets are very common at alkaline marshes in mid-summer.
Males set up territories at choice breeding sites. After males and females mate, the female oviposits, or lays her eggs, either singly or in tandem with the male. They will descend as much as a foot under the water to oviposit in aquatic vegetation.
The marsh bluet looks similar to theHagen's bluet and thefamiliar bluet.
