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| Large Red Damselfly |
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| Large Red Damselfly |
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| Large Red Damselfly |
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| Large Red Damselfly |
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| Nursery Web Spider, Pisaura mirabilis?? |
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| Sun Fly, Heliophilus pendulas |
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| Epistrophe eligans |
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Ladies in Red
The first Large Red Damsel Flies Pyrrhosoma nymphula showed in the garden, sunning themselves and drying their wings in the shrubs. I found a total of 5 but could not find any exuviae nearby so I am not sure whether they came from our pond. The first really warm day had the insects out and in the evening there were plenty of micro moths but nothing of any size; additionally a few crane flies were buzzing around the moth light. As things warm up we should see more but as I have said before, this is not a great mothing venue.
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Great shot again Dave. We have had two LR emerge from our pond, exuviae found. One unfortunately has been in the pond five days now but cannot fly as the wings have stuck together. posted a pic of it on flickr last week. Took some more yesterday using live view and the tripod much better !!
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