Photo Details - ŠNicky Davis
Near Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder
County, Utah - 30 July 2006
1. Lateral
2. Head and thorax - side view
3., 4. Appendages
Juab County
1. Mating Pair
August 23, 2005, near Scipio but in Juab
County, Utah
Characteristics
- 1 1/4 to 1 3/4
inches long.
- Thorax is 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.
Pronunciation
less-tid-ee
less-tees
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