Male and female beautiful demoiselles are the first Odonata I see each year, appearing from early May.
Common blue damselfly.
Azure damselfly.
A scarce blue-tailed damselfly. As its name suggests, this is scarce and localised and can be distinguished from the more common blue-tailed damselfly by the blue segment at the end of the abdomen whereas the blue-tailed has a black segment at the end below the blue.
A teneral (juvenile) blue-tailed damselfly yet to develop the mature colouration, but it can be seen that the penultimate abdominal segment will become blue.
4-spot chasers are now whizzing around the ponds area, pausing for brief moments on the vegetation. I saw my first emperor dragonfly on Thursday, but no hope of photographing it as it showed no sign of landing in the half hour I was watching.
Nice photos again Maggie. Perhaps Ffos-las could be the venue for the Moth Group`s annual outing this year - a bit of daylight recording? I`ll have a chat with Sam about the possibility.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds good to me and I'm happy to help in any way I can. The car park of the Trimsaran leisure centre would be a good place to meet unless you want to organise it through the racecourse. The circuit of public footpaths that I walk isn't easily reached from the racecourse car parks.
DeleteLast one is Four-spotted rather than Broad-bodied Chaser, apologies if you already knew that and the text below wasn't meant as a caption. George
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DeleteThanks George. I agree that the original text was unclear, so I have amended it to read as a caption. I did identify a different 4-spotted chaser correctly on a previous blog posted 23rd May but always welcome corrections for mistakes.
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