Not the best of shots, but hopefully Erland can identify it for me? It was not around my pond but hawking for insects around my yellow privet hedge! I do wish insects would be more considerate and pick a more neutral background because I hate pictures with the glaring yellow privet leaves in them since they do not look natural.
It was also a smaller species than the previous damselflies I have seen.
It eventually found what seemed to be a little green spider for lunch.
Or were there two of them as the second ones rear end has some tiny bumps on it?
DaveW
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It's a female from the Coenagrion genus. Surely those females are the hardest to ID of all European odonates.
But your pictures clearly show the rear edge of the pronotum, the plate at the top of the prothorax (body segment behind the head, which the front legs are attached to).
That's why I can see it's a Coenagrion puella, Azure bluet. To me it could surely be the same female in both pictures.
Great to see you got very good focus in the two pictures, and good background too.
Erland
But your pictures clearly show the rear edge of the pronotum, the plate at the top of the prothorax (body segment behind the head, which the front legs are attached to).
That's why I can see it's a Coenagrion puella, Azure bluet. To me it could surely be the same female in both pictures.
Great to see you got very good focus in the two pictures, and good background too.
Erland
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