Just spent a lovely hour in the autumn sunshine at The Bog surrounded by good numbers of Common Darter and Black Darter as well as Brown, Migrant and Southern Hawker..and to my surprise Willow Emeralds!…
adminSeptember 21, 2026
Laura and Kat Edwards-White have recorded 2 pairs of Willow Emeralds incop at Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre- 1 pair on each of the 2 main ponds. This is great news as Willow Emeralds were seen…
adminAugust 27, 2026
Harry Beaman has sent in this fabulous close up of a male Common Hawker illustrating a number of helpful diagnostic features; yellow narrow antehumeral stripes, a yellow costa, yellow thoracic side stripes, a broad contact…
adminAugust 20, 2026
Incredibly Jan Shields ventured out last Thursday in the unbelievable heat to Cramer Gutter where she managed to record our first and only Keeled Skimmer sightings so far for this year. The female is beautifully…
adminAugust 17, 2026
I was checking a private pool near Habberley yesterday and was very surprised to see this male Willow Emerald Damselfly. Apologies for the photos, but you can see the length of abdomen which was really…
adminAugust 10, 2026
Mark Underwood has been monitoring Pole Cottage Pools on the Longmynd and reporting there are barely any pools left at all. Despite a largely dried out habitat there were still a few individuals hawking over…
adminAugust 4, 2026
Dry weather continues and waterbodies are drying up which is not great news for some of our declining species. Fortunately there is still water in Wildmoor Pool on the Longmynd where Ivan Grove saw this…
adminJuly 31, 2026
Tom Lowe has visited Oss Mere just NE of Whitchurch and seen a good number of Small Red-eyed Damselflies. This delicate insect (left) has more striking bright red eyes and more blue extending in towards…
adminJuly 23, 2026
The first record of Migrant Hawker has come in from Selattyn near Oswestry. I would post the photo but sadly I cannot contact the recorder as the record has come in via iNat. Instead I've…
adminJuly 20, 2026