The first dragonfly action of the year at Bickershaw Country Park today, with
the highlight being a broad-bodied chaser emerging from it's
exuvia.
It's hard to believe that this broad-bodied chaser is in the process of emerging from the exuvia. The adult is considerably larger than it's larval exoskeleton. How on earth did the wings alone fit in there?
Also today lots of large-red damselflies including at least two colour forms of females, melanotum and fulvipes. Large-red
damselfly is the 20th species of dragonfly / damselfly that I have recorded at
the site in under 12 months. It's actually quite a common species at the site
but we only started looking for dragonflies here in June last year so missed
the flight period of large red damselfly.
The photo above shows the female form melanotum.
Large red-damselflies with the female of the form fulvipes, I think.
These are the same individuals as in the previous photo.
Large red-damselflies with the female of the form melanotum.
Blue-tailed damselfly.
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