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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 13, 2023 4:55:01 GMT
Good numbers of Red-eyed Damselflies along with Common Blue Damsels on the canal yesterday.
Checking some White Bryony at Warren Farm yesterday pleased to find a few of it's specialist bee, Andrena florea & also a single Blue Mason Bee.
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 13, 2023 16:18:28 GMT
Pleased to see 5 Norfolk Hawkers at the London Wetland Centre. Just a decade ago this would have been unimaginable as the species was largely restricted to the Norfolk Broads in this country. In recent years they have been appearing in many areas of southern England & new breeding sites forming. At least the fifth year the species has been present here.
Double figure count of Emperors & a few Hairy Dragonflies hanging on.
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 14, 2023 17:57:53 GMT
Good numbers of Emperors, Broad-bodied & Four-spotted Chasers at Chobham. Had my lunch by a small pond &there were constant aerial battles between the chasers as well as sex & egg laying. Later in the afternoon I bumped into a friend & he was photographing some Keeled Skimmers- a heathland species I'd hoped to see.
Also the most Mottled Beeflies I've ever seen there. This species is another southern heathland specialist with a short tongue & strongly patterned wings. I watched one by it's host species- an Ammophila pubescens sand wasp, of which quite a few were seen along sandy tracks.
Also good to see a ferocious Green Tiger Beetle.
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 16, 2023 13:00:07 GMT
A Southern Hawker (my first of the year) over my father's garden while I was working in it.
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 18, 2023 13:00:48 GMT
Several newly emerged Ruddy Darters coming up from a weedy ditch on the golf course & a new site record of a male Beautiful Demoiselle seen from a small bridge over the brook.
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Post by aeshna5 on Jun 22, 2023 13:45:16 GMT
Hornet Hoverfly perching on some Blackthorn. My first sighting this year of our largest hoverfly. Also a couple of its close cousin the Pellucid Fly.
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Post by aeshna5 on Jul 5, 2023 15:19:26 GMT
A couple of recently emerged Common Darters away from water at Kew-my first this year & also a Long-winged Conehead nymph.
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Post by aeshna5 on Jul 7, 2023 16:00:52 GMT
My first (3) Brown Hawkers & 80+ Small Red-eyed Damselflies at Ruislip. Also a teneral Willow Emerald.
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Post by Tringa on Jul 16, 2023 7:23:20 GMT
Last week in NW Scotland I spotted these hoverflies feeding. Hover by Dave Marley, on Flickr I think they might be Eupeodes corollae but I'm not at all sure. Dave
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Post by Tringa on Aug 16, 2023 14:38:29 GMT
I think we had a southern hawker in the back garden yesterday. I am not sure as it did not stay long and was always on the go, but the end of the abdomen was noticeably blue, so I'm guessing southern hawker.
We get blue and red damselflies regularly around the pond but dragonflies are infrequent visitors.
Dave
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