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Natural History of Radley

Dragonflies and Damselflies (odonata)
 

Ovipositing pair of Large Red Damselflies, photographed 24 May 2007 by B Crowley

Pair of Large Red Damselflies (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) ovipositing (24 May 2007)

Aeshna cyanea, photographed 8 September 2007 by B Crowley

Southern Hawker (Aeshna cyanea)

- male, resting in a Leylandii hedge

(08 September 2007)

   

Aeshna mixta, photographed 24 August 2007 by B Crowley

Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta)

(24 August 2007)

Aeshna mixta, photographed 24 August 2007 by B Crowley

Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta)

closeup of image above left

(24 August 2007)

   

Brown Hawker, photographed 23 September 2006 by B Crowley

Brown Hawker, photographed 23 September 2006 by B Crowley

Brown Hawker (Aeshna grandis) female, ovipositing at edge of Thrupp Lake

(23 September 2006)*

 
   

Aeshna grandis, photographed 04 July 2008, by S Calvert-Fisher

Brown Hawker (Aeshna grandis)

(4 July 2008)*

 
     
 

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