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Great dragonfly weather has encouraged a boost in winged activity at Whixall Moss this weekend with Stephen Barlow seeing White-faced Darters, Four-spotted Chasers, Azure , Blue-tailed and Large Red Damselflies and the first 2017 Shropshire…

Finally a day of summer weather saw the arrival of Black Darter at Whixall Moss. This is quite an early sighting and Stephen Barlow's photograph shows the diagnostic black triangle on top of the thorax-…

Gareth Thomas has made the first 2017 Shropshire sighting of Golden-ringed Dragonfly at Cramer Gutter in south Shropshire. The female seen here has a fabulous long ovipositor which is clearly visible at the end of…

Despite the less than convincing June several species seem to be emerging including Southern Hawker...this time definitely in Shropshire, near Oswestry, and seen by Warwick Davies emerging from his garden pond on 9th June. These…

Despite a rather dubious start to June there have been unconfirmed reports of Emperors and Emerald Damselflies taking to the wing (will hopefully update shortly). Stephen Barlow has also spotted an early Southern Hawker up…

I have visited a few still water sites in recent days and reasonably frequently encountered Beautiful Demoiselles. It was timely that Stephen Barlow then sent me this picture of the species seen at Whixall Moss....again…

David Tompkins who is coordinating the Clubtail Count 2017 has just informed me that 3 adults and more importantly 12 exuviae have been found on the River Vyrnwy just upstream of Melverley and also 1…

I had the chance to survey 2 private ponds near Shrewsbury yesterday and amid battling mighty mosquitoes I was lucky to see Variable Damselflies and Downy Emerald Dragonflies on the wing. There's always a chance…

The first record (I am aware of) of Broad-bodied Chaser has been made by Stephen O'Donnell on 26th May on the Wrekin and fortunately he caught the female on camera with the unmistakable broad flattened…

A busy weekend for White-legged Damselflies! I found a good number of exuviae on the banks of the River Severn in Shrewsbury and David Williams saw a large number of tenerals at Hampton Loade...including this…