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Hainault Forest Website Dragonflies and Damselflies |
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SPECIES LIST
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Large red damselfly Blue tailed damselfly Common blue damselfly Azure damselfly Migrant hawker Southern hawker Brown hawker Emperor dragonfly Broad bodied chaser Black tailed skimmer Common darter Ruddy darter
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Pyrrhosoma nymphula Ischnura elegans Enallagma cyathigera Coenagrion puella Aeshna mixta Aeshna cyanea Aeshna grandis Anax imperator Libellula depressa Orthetrum cancellatum Sympetrum striolatum Sympetrum sanguineum
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Emperor dragonfly Anax imperator female egg laying in Wildlife garden pond 20th July 2010. Also seen at Roe's well. |
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Immature Southern Hawker Dragonfly Aeshna cyanea resting on nettles. Photo © Michael Rumble. Identified by Andrew McGeeney. |
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Migrant hawker male Aeshna mixta © Vic George 1984 |
Migrant hawker male Aeshna mixta. |
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Brown Hawker female Aeshna grandis. |
Ruddy darter Sympetrum sanguineum |
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Red-veined darter Sympetrum fonscolombii a rare migrant, found 2nd September 2011 in my garden in Clayhall, Essex. Confirmed by Professor Ted Benton as the first record for Essex this year. |
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Red-veined darter Sympetrum fonscolombii a rare migrant, found 10th September 2011 by the large Golf Course Pond., Hainault Forest Several pairs were seen egg laying here. Photo © Michael Rumble |
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Broad bodied chaser male in Wildlife garden, by pond. 23rd June 2010 |
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Broad bodied chaser female on ash twig Roes Well. 27th May 2005 |
Broad bodied chaser females possibly egg laying at new cattle pond on Woodland Trust's Havering Park farm extension. Photo © Sarah White. | ||
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Broad bodied chaser (female) Photo © Iris Newbery |
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Black-tailed Skimmer male on stone at Lake edge. Photo © Ron Andrews |
Immature Black-tailed Skimmer female resting on nettle. Photo © Iris Newbery |
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Azure damselfly pair Coenagrion puella Lake 20th July 2006 |
Azure damselfly pair mating in wheel position. Roes well 15 Aug 2011 |
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Common blue damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum Roes well 15th August 2011 |
Common blue damselfly pair mating in wheel position |
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BLUE-TAILED DAMSELFLY female Ischnura elegans Photo: © Iris Newbery |
LARGE RED DAMSELFLY Pyrrhosoma nymphula
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Aquatic Nymphs
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Left: Long bodied DRAGONFLY LARVA, Hawker type. Occur in all the forest ponds. They are carnivorous. July 2004. Sheepwater. Middle: Short bodied DRAGONFLY LARVA Libellulid type - Hawkers, Chasers & Darters. Photo: May 1998. Right: DAMSELFLY LARVA, Zygoptera. Distinguished from all other aquatic larvae by the three leaf-like tracheal appendages or "gills". Predatory, often lurking among water plants awaiting prey. Photo: May 1998 Several species of Damselfly occur in the forest ponds. |
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HAWKER larval shape - 6th August 2010 in Wildlife Garden pond. |
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