Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo).
With having to stay very local recently I thought I would miss the emergence of this species, but last Friday I got in the car for the first time for many weeks and drove the 4 miles to my favourite Demoiselle site.
The morning was freezing with quite a frost, this made it hard work to find anything as all the insects were deep in the undergrowth, and as soon as the sun came up it warmed up so quickly everything was very active as soon as they showed.
Despite this I did manage to get a small number of shots, and also some great views of these beautiful insects.
Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo).
With having to stay very local recently I thought I would miss the emergence of this species, but last Friday I got in the car for the first time for many weeks and drove the 4 miles to my favourite Demoiselle site.
The morning was freezing with quite a frost, this made it hard work to find anything as all the insects were deep in the undergrowth, and as soon as the sun came up it warmed up so quickly everything was very active as soon as they showed.
Despite this I did manage to get a small number of shots, and also some great views of these beautiful insects.