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Skimming Bluet - Enallagma geminatum



Flight Season

Early Date: May 15    Late Date: September 30
Rare Abundance Scale Abundant
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Description

This tiny bluet is common statewide around lakes and deeper ponds. The abdomen is mostly back with rings of blue.

Size

Although some species show a bit of variation in size, the following graphic will give you a general feeling for the normal size of this species.

State Status:  S4      Global Status:  G5


Geographic Distribution - 83 Counties

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Recorded in These Counties
Adair Adams Allamakee Appanoose Audubon
Benton Black Hawk Bremer Buchanan Buena Vista
Carroll Cass Cedar Cerro Gordo Cherokee
Chickasaw Clarke Clay Clayton Clinton
Crawford Dallas Davis Decatur Delaware
Des Moines Dickinson Dubuque Emmet Fayette
Franklin Fremont Greene Guthrie Hancock
Hardin Harrison Henry Ida Iowa
Jackson Jasper Jefferson Johnson Jones
Keokuk Lee Linn Louisa Lucas
Madison Mahaska Marion Marshall Mills
Monona Monroe Montgomery Muscatine Page
Palo Alto Plymouth Polk Pottawattamie Poweshiek
Ringgold Sac Scott Shelby Sioux
Story Tama Taylor Union Van Buren
Wapello Warren Washington Wayne Webster
Winneshiek Woodbury Worth