Damsel Fly

[Tricia]

I saw a damsel fly yesterday in among the garlic . This one was grey with a single, brilliant turquoise horizontal stripe on its tail. I have googled, but couldn't find a picture. Does anyone know the name of this?

[retropwr]

Theres a few with turquoise on their tails, aparently this is a full list of UK species (click on UK species)

http://www.dragonflysoc.org.uk/frameset ... &recording

[Tricia]

Thanks for the link Richard - I've identified the one I saw as the Scarce Blue-tailed damselfly. Apparently it is quite comon here in the south-west, but not in urban gardens - so I may have been lucky to have seen one .

[retropwr]

Be nice to see something different, I only seem to get the red ones.

[alison]

I took the children pond dipping at Fairburn Ings on friday and there were loads of damselflies. The lovely turquoise ones and some green ones and red. I haven't seen the red ones before. A few of the turquoise were mating with green ones and making sure that they got them down into the surface of the water to lay the eggs. I didn't see any dragonflies though.

[seanmckinney]

Well I got some cracking shots yesterday, or they 'would' have been if I had taken note of the shutter speedat least thats what I think is wrong and so slow that shake is occuring. I am going to have to get a good steady made