Flight season: mid-May to late July.
Population: common, may be found at most local marshes, also encountered at the Stoco Fen.
Length: about 30 mm.
The "U" shaped black mark on the male's S2 is distinctive but may be thin or broken on some individuals.
This damselfly's pastel greenish-blue or turquoise color (males) or yellow-green (females), quite different from other bluets, usually makes it easy to separate in the field.
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Tweed, Ontario, about ½ km west of town, a marsh bordering the trans-Canada Trail:
typical local marsh with Cattails, sedges and other emergent vegetation, various small willows, alders, dogwoods and some Tamarack.
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Male Taiga Bluet (Coenagrion resolutum)
May 31, 2010
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Male Taiga Bluet (Coenagrion resolutum)
June 13, 2010
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Female Taiga Bluet (Coenagrion resolutum) –
a less frequently encountered male-like color form, pale blue with a touch of green along the sides of the thorax
(June 20, 2014).
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Taiga Bluet (Coenagrion resolutum), wheel
June 02, 2010
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A marsh east of Sulphide, Ontario:
open expanses of shallow water, shoreline vegetation consists of shrubs such as willow and speckled alder.
Typical emergent plants are cattails, sedges and rushes, aquatics include pondweed and Yellow Water Lily.
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Female Taiga Bluet (Coenagrion resolutum)
June 04, 2011
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