Dragonflies and damselflies, ancient hunters. The differences.

Some damselflies are simply more dapper than others…

Female Odalisque (Epallage fatime), Rodos 🇬🇷

My first large red damselfly of the year! Just hanging around, enjoying the sunshine! Great to see them back ❤️❤️

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I think the insects are as confused as I am by the extreme changes in the weather at the moment.......one day blazing hot the next cold cloudy and windy.

Anyway, the Damselflies are back and I have several ticks for good measure......

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Pond update - damselflies are here

#Dag13 van #mei_nmooistefotos

Met het thema : #LibellenEnJuffers
#Dragonflies_and_Damselflies .

De zeldzame #Plasrombout #Gomphus_pulchellus #Western_Clubtail .

Boswachter Jochem entomology-art .

Side view showing slender body of damselflies

May Photo Challenge

from: Boswachter Jochem

Today's Choice:
- Dragon- & Damselflies -
❤️

Large Red Damselfly

at our Garden-Pond,
this Afternoon

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Nymph
Metamorphosis
Damselflies

All in an oak half barrel
#pondlife
#Wildlife

Damselflies(Psygoptera) are similar to dragonflies but are generally smaller and have slimmer bodies and large, compound eyes, composed of thousands of individual facets called ommatidia, allowing them to detect movement in all directions.

My wildflower meadow area of my garden is just starting to flower. Saw first damselflies yesterday swooping about. It’s 15 years of one cut in September. Anthills attract woodpeckers too. #gardenshour

Some of the many Variable Damselflies seen at Stodmarsh, 07-05-24

My goal today was to find some damselflies, which I managed at Whitehorse Meadow in Croydon, a small nature reserve just above Selhurst Park. These are large red damselflies.

The eyes of damselflies consist of thousands of ommatidia (telescope-shaped clusters of photoreceptor cells) that resemble honeycombs.

A couple of Damselflies mating
for #InsectThursday
(Western Mass)

Differences Between Dragonflies and Damselflies animalwised.com/differences-be… #allanimals

How lovely is the silence of growing things.

Yesterday I got to look around a beautiful place that was full of nature. And a pond that was teaming with newly emerged damselflies. I had dragonfly/damselfly envy.
Where are mine!!! 2 Ponds and not one yet!

Pleased to have three Large Red #Damselflies at the wildlife garden pond today. A mating/ovipositing pair and this gooseberry who kept trying to steal the limelight 😊

#wildlifegardening #hertsdragonflies

First emergence of this years damselflies today, both of these are Large Red and probably female, I'm hoping for some blues this year as they started laying last year but we'll see
#wildlife #damselflies

Common Blue Damselflies at Middleton NR. Lancashire Wildlife Trust The Wildlife Trusts