Dragonflies and damselflies (odonata)

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Dragonflies and Damselflies (odonata)

Dragonflies and Damselflies (odonata) Common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum)* Blue-tailed damselfly (Ischnura elegans)* Large red damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum)* Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator)* Black-tailed Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum) Banded Demoiselle (Calyopteryx splendens) Demoiselle (Calopteryx sp.)* Brown Hawker (Aeshna grandis)* Southern Hawker (Aeshna cyanea)* Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) Club-tailed Dragonfly (Gomphus vulgatissimus)* Four-spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata)* Broad bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa)	Blue-tailed damselflies mating (30 May 2005)*
Common blue damselfly - female (15 May 2005)*	Blue-tailed damselfly (15 May 2005)*

Common blue damselfly - male (11 June 2005)*	Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) - female (22 June 2006)*

Ruddy darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) - male (22 August 2004)	Ruddy Darter(Sympetrum sanguineum) - immature male (30 June 2006)*

Related Links
The British Dragonfly Society The Dragonfly Website G H Mahony's Dragonflies and Damselflies

References
Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland Steve Brooks and Richard Lewington British Wildlife Publishing, Gillingham, Dorset, Revised edition, 2004 ISBN 0 9531399 0 5

Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe Klaas-Douwe B Dijkstra and Richard Lewington British Wildlife Publishing, Gillingham, Dorset, 2006 ISBN 0 953 1399 4 8 (paperback) ISBN 0 953 1399 5 6 (hardback)


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