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Good to hear news from Whixall Moss where Barrie Smith saw Four-spotted Chaser Libellula quadrimaculata, Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula and White-faced Darter Leucorrhinia dubia all this morning.  Barrie's photos below show the mature male White-faced…

Delaying work this morning I took a stroll around Radbrook and was pleased to see my first Azure Damselflies of the season.This is the female green form with extensive black on the abdomen. A closer…

I often spend time scouring emergent vegetation looking for dragonfly and damselfly exuviae but this record of Four-spotted Chaser Libellula quadrimaculata from Peter Roberts in Woore (NE Shropshire) is a great reminder to check everywhere!Larvae…

Fabulous to enjoy a bit of sunshine today and whilst visiting Pam's Pools near Mor Brook I was greeted by a good number of Beautiful Demoiselles Calopteryx virgo. Great to see both males and females in…

Having received an email from David Williams entitled 'free lunch' I could never have imagined it meant the following.....Dragonfly recording on  the River Severn at Hampton Loade David came across the following Common Club-tail disaster:The…

Just when I was starting to wonder what was happening welcome news arrives from Roger Littleover that Common Club-tail Gomphus vulgatissimus has been seen over near Quatt. Roger's photo below shows the stocky straight sided…

Large Red Damselfly records are starting to pick up across the county with Warwick Davies spotting a few adults at his pond near Oswestry and Peta Sams recording an adult basking in the sun in…

Well a fabulous stretch of spring sunshine has finally got the dragonflies underway with the first reported sighting in Shropshire of a Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula. This teneral female was seen by Joena Scott…

The great weather is here so I thought I better emerge before our first Large Red Damselflies put in an appearance! Last year we had many early sightings with the first Large Red Damselfly recorded on…

Thanks to Paul Spear who's still keeping an eye on things we have a really late Shropshire sighting of Common Darter - 4 to be precise! All seen yesterday (3rd Nov) at Venus Pools. 2…