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Dragonflies and Damselflies 2010

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  • #52
    wgsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭wgsten


    Large Red Damsellfly from the lake in Donadea Wood.

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    wgsten
    http://www.irishflyfisher.ie/


  • #53
    Alliandre
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    Can anyone give an indication as to the sizes of dragonflies? I saw one a couple of weeks ago that was larger than any I've ever seen. Unfortunately it was moving around too much and never landed so I didn't get a picture. It was easily two or three times longer than a common blue damselfly would be. It was mostly brown, and seemed to be somewhat striped with lighter colours along the side. Perhaps it was a brown hawker like the second picture that Littlebug posted. How big would they be?


  • #54
    Durnish
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    See the hawkers? They are big and you can hear them. When they fly in to hawk about they clack their wings at each other, like small chinook helicopters.


  • #55
    Mothman
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    Alliandre wrote: »
    Can anyone give an indication as to the sizes of dragonflies? I saw one a couple of weeks ago that was larger than any I've ever seen. Unfortunately it was moving around too much and never landed so I didn't get a picture. It was easily two or three times longer than a common blue damselfly would be. It was mostly brown, and seemed to be somewhat striped with lighter colours along the side. Perhaps it was a brown hawker like the second picture that Littlebug posted. How big would they be?
    The large ones such as Brown Hawker are about 3 inches 80mm long so this would fit


  • #56
    artieanna
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    I remember the first time I met a couple of dragon flies when I was out for a walk. They were soo big they completly creeped me out.

    Saw about six or so this year over drains in the bog, lovely to watch them. The images here are smashing, great to have a look at them closely.


  • #57
    Half-cocked
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    Comparing with the pic in a post above, this looks like a Common Darter in my garden today?

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  • #58
    Feargal as Luimneach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Feargal as Luimneach


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    Female Emperor dragonfly ovipositing (I think)


  • #59
    Mothman
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    Feargal as Luimneach wrote: »
    Female Emperor dragonfly ovipositing (I think)

    Where was this taken?, because this is a female Southern Hawker :eek: Emperor Dragonfly doesn't have spots
    If this is in Ireland, this is very significant, only one confirmed record though I've heard of a sighting or 2 since but they never made it to the record books.


  • #60
    Mothman
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    Half-cocked wrote: »
    Comparing with the pic in a post above, this looks like a Common Darter in my garden today?
    Yes it is, I think a very mature female


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  • #61
    Feargal as Luimneach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Feargal as Luimneach


    Mothman wrote: »
    Where was this taken?, because this is a female Southern Hawker :eek: Emperor Dragonfly doesn't have spots
    If this is in Ireland, this is very significant, only one confirmed record though I've heard of a sighting or 2 since but they never made it to the record books.
    No such luck, I took it in Cambridge (england) at the weekend...


  • #62
    Mothman
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    Feargal as Luimneach wrote: »
    No such luck, I took it in Cambridge (england) at the weekend...
    Well next time tell us location :mad: ;) you had me going :)


  • #63
    Feargal as Luimneach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Feargal as Luimneach


    Mothman wrote: »
    Well next time tell us location :mad: ;) you had me going :)
    :o


  • #64
    wgsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 187 ✭✭wgsten


    Common Darter pictured at Lough Muck Co. Mayo.
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    wgsten
    http://www.irishflyfisher.ie/


  • #65
    wgsten
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    Brown Hawker Female
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    wgsten
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  • #66
    Mothman
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    wgsten wrote: »
    Brown Hawker Female ?
    It is


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  • #67
    Rainbowsend
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    Macro-13.jpg


  • #68
    Feargal as Luimneach
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    That common darter looks like it's smiling:)


  • #69
    Rainbowsend
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    Feargal as Luimneach wrote: »
    That common darter looks like it's smiling:)

    He was I asked him to :D


  • #70
    Mothman
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    Still plenty of species on the wing. Season usually lasts till end of Oct or early Nov. Some snaps today. I addition to below, there are Enallagma cyathigerum Common Bluet Common Blue Damselfly, Ischnura elegans Common Bluetail Common Blue-tailed Damselfly, Sympetrum sanguineum Ruddy Darter and Sympetrum striolatum Common Darter

    Lestes sponsa Common Spreadwing Common Emerald Damselfly
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    A different pair
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    Male
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    Libellula quadrimaculata Four spotted Chaser, I don't usually see these in September.
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    The rest are of a Aeshna mixta Migrant Hawker
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  • #71
    littlebug
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    Common Darter (I think) beside Clare lake, Co Mayo this morning.
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    edited: dammit I thought I'd posted a cropped version... not firing on all cylinders today.


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  • #72
    Mothman
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    I don't think Sympetrum danae Black Darter has featured on this thread. Been many years since I've seen one in garden. I didn't manage to get very close, and here's the best of the snaps I took today.
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