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Paul Spear has sent in some fascinating photos of White-legged Damselflies emerging at Coalbrookdale. The individual shown here on the left is fascinating as you can actually see the mouthparts extended forward from the front…

Stephen Barlow has sent in a photo of the first Emerald Damselfly of the Shropshire flight season seen on the Marl Allotment at Whixall Moss. This photo shows a female with a stockier body than…

David Williams has dug a brand new garden pond in lockdown and just a couple of weeks after adding water it was visited by Broad-bodied Chasers. These are known to colonise new ponds and have…

Jan Shields took a lunch break at Aston Locks recently and was rewarded with Emperors, Four-spotted Chasers, Black-tailed Skimmers, Azure Damselflies, Banded Demoiselles and our first photo of Red-eyed Damselfly- doing what it's nearly always…

Tom Harwood has made an exciting discovery- a Downy Emerald seen on June 1st on the Llangollen Canal near Ellesmere. This is no where near the few known sites for this species in Shropshire which…

Charles Thompson has sent in this very pleasing photo of White-faced Darters as happily they're both facing the camera with white faces (frons) clearly visible. Taken at Whixall Moss a couple of days ago in…

Paul Spear has pictured this recently emerged Black-tailed Skimmer at Whixall Moss showing the distinctive black and yellow abdominal markings seen in both females and immature males. He also saw numerous Four-spotted Chaser, blue damselflies, White-faced…

Paul Spear has been out and about in the sunshine at Coalbrookdale and taken some glorious photos. The male Banded Demoiselle (left) looks stunning when captured with all 4 wings visible- leaving us in no…

I'm always thrilled when dragons and damsels emerge from our own pond, but I'd be exceedingly happy if like Yvonne from Cross Houses I had a regular emergence of Emperor Dragonflies! Yvonne has seen many…

Jan Shields has been to Mousecroft Pool near Shrewsbury and has managed to grab 2 quick photos of 2 different species of blue damselfly - both new to our list for 2020. Common Blue Damselfly is…