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Dragonflies and Damselflies 2010

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    No such luck, I took it in Cambridge (england) at the weekend...
    Well next time tell us location :mad: ;) you had me going :)


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


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭wgsten


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭wgsten


    Brown Hawker Female
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    wgsten
    http://www.irishflyfisher.ie/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    wgsten wrote: »
    Brown Hawker Female ?
    It is


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  • Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    Macro-13.jpg


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


    That common darter looks like it's smiling:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    That common darter looks like it's smiling:)

    He was I asked him to :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    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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