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Jill Orme has witnessed some extraordinary behaviour whilst observing Common Hawkers at Pole Cottage Pools on the Long Mynd. As the photographs rather grimly show, a female was going about her business ovipositing when a…

Miles Leach has been enjoying Emerald Damselflies at a relatively new pond near the base of Brown Clee Hill. This photo shows beautifully the differences between male and females of this species. Whilst both insects…

I finally returned to teaching dragonfly courses yesterday which was a joy! Not only did the sun come out, but at Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Craven Arms we were treated to a first sighting of…

Prees Heath Common Reserve is well known to butterfly enthusiasts, but the warden Stephen Lewis has recently recorded the dragonfly Black Darter - pictured left. This male was seen on 1st August and represents the…

Jan Shields has sent in some lovely photos from the Bog, Stiperstones. Pictured left is the UK's largest dragonfly the Emperor and if you look closely you can see nearly all of an Emerald Damselfly…

Andy Warr has been enjoying the dragonflies at Pole Cottage Pools on the Long Mynd and has come across the rarer female blue form of Common Hawker. Usually the females are brown with yellow spots as…

Stephen Barlow has seen 2 Migrant Hawker on Prees Heath. Firstly a male flying past and then a female who conveniently stopped for a photo. The picture shows the distinctive long anal appendages of the…

This is a sighting made by Lauren Ollie Waldron in April 2020 which has only recently come to my attention...so I'm posting it 16 moths late (!) because it's still worth sharing. Lauren spotted a…

One more just for luck! Well 2 actually, seen by Stephen Barlow at Whixall Moss on 21st July chasing off an Emperor Dragonfly and reportedly being far more effective at this than Common Hawkers. The…

Eyes can be a useful clue in dragonfly identification. Nearly all dragonflies in the UK have a degree of contact between the eyes however the Golden-ringed Dragonfly photographed here by Jan Shields at Carding Mill…