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The Great Blue Skimmer Dragonfly **
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The Blue Skimmer Dragonflies are sometimes known as Sky Blue Dragonflies. Both female and male adults are a medium size with a body length of 45mm.
 * Introduction **

Mature males are powder blue in colour with a tapered abdomen tip. When they are resting the dragonflies’ holds out their wings horizontally, sometimes they hold their wings below their body. The Blue Skimmer has a life span of more than a year, but only a little of that life is actually of the adult dragonfly. There are three stages of their life cycle, the egg, nymph, and the adult. Most of the life cycle of the dragonfly is lived out in the nymph stage. Not too many dragonflies like to perch on rocks but the Blue Skimmer does. Most of the Bulimba creek has fast running water with rocks. So we can find Blue Skimmers very easily along the creek. The Blue Skimmer eats mosquitos and other small insects like flies, bees, ants and butterflies. Birds are their natural predators. Apart from, these insects are also preyed on by fish, water beetles, frogs, spiders, lizards and even larger species of dragonflies.
 * Anatomy **
 * Life cycle **
 * Habitat **
 * Diet **
 * Predators **

Did you know the Blue Skimmer can fly 35 miles per hour? Did you know it consumes about 10 to 15 percent its own weight in prey per day? I chose to do the Blue Skimmer because I think they are interesting and quite beautiful. I enjoy getting information about them!
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