Double-striped Bluet
(Enallagma basidens)
Click to enlargeAllen Creek - Karow Property, Jefferson, WI. June 27, 2007.
Click to enlargeAllen Creek - Karow Property, Jefferson, WI. June 27, 2007.
Click to enlargeAllen Creek - Karow Property, Jefferson, WI. June 27, 2007.
Click to enlargeAllen Creek - Karow Property, Jefferson, WI. June 27, 2007.
This species is an easy bluet to identify as it has an extra thin blue strip on the thorax. This characteristic is easily seen with close-focusing binoculars, but I wasn’t able to see the extra stripe without them as they are very small insects and look like many of the other bluets at first glance.