A morning walk around Linear Park and an afternoon walk around Soudley Ponds produced some canny Dragonflies and Damselflies and some canny insects. As always please don’t hesitate to correct me if I have miss-identified anything.
Downey Emerald Dragonfly.
Male Broad-bodied Chaser.
Female Broad-bodied Chaser.
A female laying eggs.
Male Broad-bodied Chaser.
This male is chasing small flies.
Large Red Damselfly.
A pair of Large Reds.
The markings on S2 look odd but I think this is an
Azure Damselfly.
Once again, the markings look a little odd but I think
Azure.
A pair of Azure Damselflies.
A rubbish shot but it’s the only one I got of a
Beautiful Demoiselle.
Green Shieldbug.
Hazel Leaf-roller Weevil.
Reed Beetle Sp.
Green Tortoise Beetle.
Some crackers there Ron, jealous as I've yet to see a Downy Emerald, they're always too early season for when we hit the south. Never seen an S2 marking like that on an Azure but all the other features point to Azure so no doubting the ID, and Hazel Leaf-roller is a curious thing but a lovely little insect. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteCheers Alan. We visited quite a few ponds but we only saw the Downey at one of them however the Broad-bodied Chasers were out in good numbers. That Azure was certainly unusual but when I read up about it, it did say there were a few variations. Oh, and by the way congratulations on having a picture of the Longhorn Beetle on Springwatch.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ron, aye, that was a bit bizarre, I received a message from the BBC Springwatch Flickr account out of the blue on Thurs morning saying they'd seen my pic on my Flickr and wanted to use it that night on a piece they were doing. I wasn't going to say no! They must have researchers trawling species they want to use as I don't tag my photos which made it even more bizarre. Worth setting up a Flickr account Ron, certainly going to update mine :-) Made my day, as Blakey used to say ;-) Cheers.
DeleteStrangely enough I started to put some images on Flickr not long ago and I tag my pictures with Springwatch unfortunately the researchers haven’t seen it yet 😊
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