Florida Bluet

Enallagma pollutum · Order: Odonata · Family: Coenagrionidae

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Florida Bluet
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0

The Florida bluet is a narrow-winged damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is found only in the eastern United States.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Enallagma pollutum, called the Florida bluet, is a narrow-winged damselfly in the Coenagrionidae family.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

This species lives only in the eastern United States.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 8 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Florida, South Carolina, Illinois, Georgia, Indiana, Alabama, Arizona, Mississippi.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Florida Bluet photo 2
Photo: Mike Ostrowski, CC BY-SA
Florida Bluet photo 3
Photo: Buckelkopfcichlide, CC BY
Florida Bluet photo 4
Photo: Dennis Vollmar, CC BY
Florida Bluet photo 5
Photo: Dennis Vollmar, CC BY

Same family (Coenagrionidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enallagma_pollutum

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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.

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