Nature By NameSign inCreate an account

Insects › Darners

Blue Emperor

Anax imperator

Learn Blue Emperor freeHow it works
Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) gwynmwilliams, some rights reserved (CC BY)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

See all photosAdd a photo

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 11,747, February 8,676, March 13,593, April 21,385, May 30,834, June 33,622, July 35,978, August 30,941, September 22,716, October 16,956, November 9,265, December 7,242.
United States242,955
Alaska242,955
United Kingdom2,220
England2,082
Germany1,827
South Africa1,709
France1,587
Spain1,116
Italy1,097
Western Cape952

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderDragonflies and Damselflies · Odonata
FamilyDarners · Aeshnidae
GenusEmperors and Green Darners · Anax

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Blue Emperor with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

Create a free accountHow it works