British Dragonfly Society
Life Cycle And Biology
Hairy Dragonfly
UK’s smallest, hairiest Hawker that emerging before other Hawkers in May. Male: dark with blue and green markings. Female: dark with yellow markings. Tips for identifying spotty dragonfly…
Beautiful Demoiselle
Large metallic damselfly with fluttering, butterfly-like wings. Male: metallic blue body with dark wings. Female: metallic green-bronze body with translucent pale brown wings. Click on an image…
Red-eyed Damselfly
A robust, dark Damselfly. Male: red eyes and blue bands at the end of the abdomen. Female: brown-red eyes and green colouration on the sides of the thorax. …
Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly
Very similar to the more common Blue-tailed Damselfly. Male: mostly black with a small blue patch at the end of the abdomen. Female: mostly black and green-brown on the underside….
Scarlet Darter
Rare vagrant Male: vividly bright scarlet. Females: yellow-brown with pale antehumeral stripes on the back of the thorax. Click on an image to enlarge it….
Photographing Dragonflies – top tips by a County Dragonfly Recorder
…have to work with. For me, the Brown Hawker is almost an impossible task as they are so wary but just occasionally you get lucky. That’s the challenge I suppose…
The Monmouthshire dragonfly list
Monmouthshire dragonfly species