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Subarctic Bluet

Coenagrion interrogatum

422 observations in the source records

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) kcarrol2, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

27 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.

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What the records say

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 Quebec.January 25, February 22, March 33, April 80, May 147, June 97, July 81, August 75, September 66, October 55, November 32, December 29.
Canada1,998
United States778
Quebec741
Alaska633
Ontario563
Nunavut318
British Columbia54
Northwest Territories51
Manitoba48
Minnesota47

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
FamilyNarrow-winged Damselflies · Coenagrionidae
GenusNorthern Bluets · Coenagrion

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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