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Taken at Croxall Lakes, Staffordshire
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Common Blue Damselfly - Enallagma cyathigerum.
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Taken in Lichfield
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♀ Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825) was perching in Los Civiles, Puerto de La Cadena, Murcia
Damselflies are insects of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata. They are similar to dragonflies, which constitute the other odonatan suborder, Anisoptera, but are smaller, have slimmer bodies, and most species fold the wings along the body when at rest.
Dragonfly sex is a very conspicuous event, easily recognized by the heart-shaped "wheel" formation of mating pairs.
Lestes viridis
Leste fiancé
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El caballito del diablo esmeralda
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Ischnura senegalensis
Location : Mizunomori Botanical Garden.
Oroshimo, Kusatsu, Shiga pref.
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Love these little things
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This is a Damselfly rather than a Dragonfly - wings together rather than out and eyes separated rather than close together.
Finally got one to stand still - In the garden - No camouflage available for this creature - Bit risky hiding in front of a Kingfisher?
Lovely little thing, from an earlier walk in Otmoor
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Pewit Carr (or Peewit Carr)
Carr comes from the Old Norse Kjarr meaning marshy woodland - which this area still is.
Not sure which of the UK blue coloured damselflies this is.....
Large Red Damselfly - Pyrrhosoma Nymphula.
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The azure damselfly (Coenagrion puella) is a species of damselfly found in most of Europe. It is notable for its distinctive black and blue colouring. They are commonly found around ponds and lakesides during the summer.
Adult male azure damselflies have a head and thorax patterned with blue and black. They have an azure blue abdomen patterned with black markings. The marking on the second segment of the abdomen is U-shaped, separated from the segment's narrow terminal black band. (This distinguishes it from the variable damselfly where the U-shape is joined to the terminal band with a black line.)
Segments three to five are blue with broader black terminal bands, lacking the forward-pointing projection the upper surface which adult male common blue damselfly has. Segment six has a similar pattern but with more restricted blue and a broader area of black, and segment seven is mostly black, with just a narrow blue area at the base. Segment eight and much of segment nine are sky-blue, forming a noticeable contrasting patch, but there are small dark markings on the rear upper side of segment nine, which adult male common blue damselfly does not possess.
Adult female azure damselflies have a head and thorax pattern similar to that of the male, but with glittering, glossy green replacing the blue coloring. The abdominal segments are largely black in coloring, with narrow pale markings at the junction between each segment.
The nymphs are usually green with browner wing buds and lamellae. They develop in one year (two in the north), feeding among submerged vegetation and on small invertebrates.
Eyes looking at you
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Peripherally flitting by,
I caught a glimpse of something bright,
a shimmer like the stars at night,
a dancing, daring damselfly.
She swooped above me in an arc,
and came to rest right on my shoulder;
what a vision, to behold her
eyes so large and dark.
She was there to speak in whisper-
She lingered with me sping and summer,
while I tried hard to become her
friend; she left. And now I miss her.