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Hairy dragonfly?

  • 17-08-2014 12:44pm
    #1
    baaba maal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 772 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I saw what the Irish Dragonflys website seem to be telling me is a hairy dragonfly (I had to catch it to get it out of an enclosed hen run). The problem is that it says the flight period is early and they're not to be seen after May/June. I have a little lens and the thorax is indeed hairy. Could it just be a late bloomer?

    thanks


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Many dragonflies have the thorax covered in hairs. Can you describe the colouring?


  • #3
    baaba maal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    Ah! I managed to get pic after releasing it- it is probably a male (?) brown hawker now that I see the photo- the blue spots on the abdomen weren't as obvious to my naked eye.[IMG][/img]DSC_0565_zps67eda023.jpg


  • #4
    axe2grind
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭axe2grind


    Its a female Common Hawker.

    Brown Hawker has obviously tinted wings and little by way of spots on the abdomen.

    Hairy Dragonfly season is finished by mid July, though of course one always finds exceptions to usual flight season, it would still be extremely unlikely if not unprecedented to see Hairy Dragonfly at this time of year.


  • #5
    baaba maal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    Cheers a2g- that makes sense.


  • #6
    kumate_champ07
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    just saw one in Terenure, flew away before I got a chance to get a photo. it was very long 5-6cm, and 1cm thick. basically the circumference from near its head to end of tail was like a long cigar, it didnt get smaller. maybe it came from Bushy Park?


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  • #7
    V_Moth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭V_Moth


    kumate_champ07 wrote: »
    just saw one in Terenure, flew away before I got a chance to get a photo. it was very long 5-6cm, and 1cm thick. basically the circumference from near its head to end of tail was like a long cigar, it didnt get smaller. maybe it came from Bushy Park?

    Without a pic, it would be very difficult to ID it to species. Dragonflies will feed well away from water, sometimes even in shaded forests or it could well have been a migrant blown off-course by the recent bad weather.


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