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Daniel Johnson and Gwen Earlham have recorded the first early Black Darters emerging at Whixall Moss. 5 were seen in total and this photo (left) clearly shows the diagnostic black triangle on top of the…

On the 6th June Tim Walter photographed this fairly fresh looking Common Darter. This close up enables us to clearly see the yellow stripe extending down the black legs - the most useful feature to…

David Williams has sent in these great photos of Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly seen unexpectedly at Beckbury Meadows - a privately owned site on the River Worfe flood plain between Albrighton and Bridgnorth. This site is…

An anonymous record for Southern Hawker 2nd June has come into iRecord via Birdtrack which unfortunately I have no way of verifying, but please do let me know if you definitely see this species on…

In between the threatening clouds on Saturday I was checking a privately owned site near Shrewsbury and saw 2 male Downy Emerald Dragonflies. I did my best to get a photo, but even with my…

Mark Priest visited Shrewsbury in search of Clubtails to find they had emerged and were no where to be seen. He was rewarded however with White-legged Damselflies. This photo of a female (left) beautifully illustrates…

Mark Underwood has been monitoring the pools at Pole Cottage on the Longmynd and seen much ovipositing by Large Red Damselflies. On the whole this appeared to be going well, but closer inspection of the…

Tim Walter has seen Black-tailed Skimmers at Pam's Pools near Bridgnorth and sent in these lovely photos of a female ovipositing (and reflection) and in flight. I was lucky enough to see my first skimmers…

I returned to Isle Pool near Shrewsbury today and to my amazement saw 2 Norfolk Hawkers! Both were too distant for my camera so I have posted here a reminder of their appearance using a…

It's not very often that the exuvial records outnumber records of adults! Thanks to Nicole Matton discovering these 4 exuviae on the walls of an ornamental pool at Lilleshall Hall we now have 5 exuviae…