Photo Details - ŠNicky
Davis
Chicken Creek, Juab County, Utah
Lat 39° 28' 55.09" N,
Long 111°58' 27.63" W
Elevation 5077 feet.
June 07, 2006.
1., 2. Full lateral photos
3. Partial dorsal
4. Dorsal view of head, thorax and
abdomen
5. Head and thorax, lateral
6. Head and thorax, dorsal
7. Face
8., 9., 10. Appendages
Also located - October 17, 2005 -15.
July 31, 2005 - Antelope Island Causeway,
Davis County, Utah
August 23, 2005 ,off I-15 near Scipio,
but in Juab County, Utah
Characteristics
Size: 1 1/4 to 1 3/4 inches
long. Thorax bronze-black with yellow stripe
down center of upper surface and 4 dark spots
on the underside.
Lower appendages are less than half the
length of the upper appendages. Stigma,
dark brown. Habitat, ponds with
cattails, bulrushes and sedges. Adult
food is a variety of soft-bodied flying
insects such as mosquitos, flies and
moths. This spot was full of gnats and
mosquitoes.
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