
	Description
	The pale shoulder stripe is wider than the adjacent dark stripe. The eyespots are moderately sized and teardrop-shaped. The male is mostly blue on abdominal segments 2 through 5. The female pale areas are pale blue to olive-tan. Abdominal segments 2 through 5 are mostly black. Segments 8 and 9 are usually pale above, sometimes black.

	Size
	Total length: 1″ to 2″, average 1⅓″

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	Habitat
	Permanent or temporary ponds and lakes, slow streams.


	Biology
	Season
	Early June to early October

	Behavior


	Life Cycle


	Naiad Food


	Adult Food


	Taxonomy
	Order	Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies)
	Suborder	Zygoptera (damselflies)
	Superfamily	Coenagrionoidea
	Family	Coenagrionidae (narrow-winged damselflies)
	Genus	Enallagma (bluets)

	Synonyms


	Common Names
	familiar bluet


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	Familiar Bluet (Enallagma civile) Andree Reno Sanborn




	Enallagma civile (Familiar Bluet) Allen Chartier




	Familiar Bluet Victor Fazio

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	Familiar Bluet (Coenagrionidae: Enallagma) Preparing to Mate Carl Barrentine

	About Uploaded on Jul 29, 2010 Photographed near Fisher, Minnesota (28 July 2010).



	Familiar Bluet (Coenagrionidae: Enallagma civile) Male on Stem Carl Barrentine

	About Uploaded on Jul 15, 2009 Photographed at Grand Forks, North Dakota (15 July 2009).



	Damselfly Familiar Bluet (Enallagma civile) Alan Marshall

	About Published on Apr 4, 2012 at Fogg Dam, NT, Australia April 2011

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Alfredo Colon 10/6/2019	Location: Woodbury, Minnesota



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