Tule Bluet
(Enallagma carunculatum)
Tule Bluets started flying in early July of 2003 and were still flying until the last week in August in a number of places. Tule Bluets are an easy Bluet to identify in Wisconsin because they are the only one with lots of blue but are half to two-thirds black in segments 3, 4, and 5, and segments 6 and 7 are mostly black. In the field, many of them look like the amount of blue increases slightly from segment 7 to segment three. The photo of the two male Tule Bluets shows two Bluets that were stuck on the sticky flower bud of a species of sow thistle. I saw four different Tule Bluets get stuck in about 10 minutes. Two were able to escape themselves, while I released these two after they posed for the photograph. I think they had just worn themselves out flying in place and were resting. You can see the one below is still flapping his wings and is attached by the sticky resin.