Odonata
- Dragonflies and damselflies
Dragonflies are larger than damsels, and dragons rest with wings outstretched, damsels with wings along the abdomen. Larvae are aquatic predators.
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Common Blue Damselfly
Enallagma cyathigerum
(Charpentier 1840)
Female, photographed at Cambridge 29 June 2001.
Arrowed features: the shape of the hind margin of the pronotum, and the spine underneath segment 8, distiguish this from other blue female damselflies.
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Ischnura elegans
(van der Linden, 1823)
Cambridge Science Park TL464617; 26 Jun 2002
Large Red Damselfly
Pyrrhosoma nymphula
(Sulzer, 1776)
Cambridge - Barnwell Nature Reserve TL479583; 23 May 2004
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