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Friday 16th May saw the emergence of 3 more species. Jan Shields saw White-legged Damselfly (female left) on the River Severn at Frankwell and Red-eyed Damselflies were seen near Berrington and by myself in Pontesbury…

Stephen Barlow has seen a number of Hairy Dragonflies at Marbury Big Mere - just outside Whitchurch, but over the border in Cheshire. Stephen's photo illustrates the broad yet tapering antehumeral (shoulder) stripes of the…

Numbers of dragons and damselflies are building with all this hot weather, and with them come the predators! Ron Kinrade  has been viewing blackbirds taking their share (left) on his pond in Hemford though some…

Some of you are heading to the River Severn in Shrewsbury in search of Clubtails and also finding good numbers of Banded Demoiselles. Jan Shields has sent in this male (left) illustrating the dark band…

I'm always amazed how some species can emerge on mass at a similar time. On the same day Stephen Barlow was viewing Clubtails in Shrewsbury Paul Roughley was photographing emergents and exuviae much further upstream…

Common Clubtails were reportedly seen yesterday emerging from the River Severn in Shrewsbury and today Stephen Barlow has sent in this photo of an individual emerging. You can clearly see the old tracheal linings as…

I had thought there would be a flurry of activity over this weekend but I think the cooler temperatures have really held things back a little and I still have no dragonflies emerging from my…

Paul Thomas has sent in some lovely photos of Large Red Damselflies on Brown Clee Hill where the higher altitude means things are only just getting underway. The photo (left) shows the exuviae beneath the…

It's going to be a busy week! Yesterday Tim Walter sent in the first records for  Blue-tailed Damselfly (left) and Azure Damselfly (below left) both seen at Pam's Pools near Bridgnorth. Beautiful Demoiselle was also…

Hopefully I'll post the evidence of Broad-bodied Chaser shortly -seen in Minsterly on 27th April which is the second earliest sighting ever of this species in Shropshire! In the meantime Stephen Barlow has photographed 1…