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RedRobin:
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You jammy barstewards, Paul!! I've been trying to spot and photograph Dragonflies all year. Do you want me to ID them for you or do you already know their species?
Plenty of Damselflies around my pond though. For that I'm gonna post one of my Damselfly pics in your thread! :P
^ Large Red Damselfly egg-laying in my pond.
PND:
Ha! Sorry if I've upset you Robin!
I think they might be a Southern Hawker and a Brown Hawker?
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: PND on September 15, 2012, 05:12:23 pm ---
I think they might be a Southern Hawker and a Brown Hawker?
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....Yep, methinks that the first pic is of a male Southern Hawker - Most common south of a line between the Humber and Ribble river estuaries but now spreading northwards.
Other two pics are definitely a female Brown Hawker and photographed while egg-laying. If it's in your pond, be prepared for the annihalation of many other forms of water life! The larvae are very predatory and very effective ambushers. I have found the exuvia (moulted skin) of a Hawker larvae in my pond. I have spent literally hours photographing the stages of emergence of several Damselflies and it is my hope to do the same with a Dragonfly. But I won't hijack your thread with pics.
The ancestors of Dragonflies are one of the most ancient species on Planet Earth and fossils show that some had wingspans of several feet!
PND:
Not my pond but one of about 8 dragonfly ponds at my local Nature Reserve! So, I can't really claim that I did well to find them!
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: PND on September 15, 2012, 05:31:02 pm ---
Not my pond but one of about 8 dragonfly ponds at my local Nature Reserve! So, I can't really claim that I did well to find them!
--- End quote ---
....I still think you are a jammy barstewards!................ For having a Nature Reserve locally.
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