Final Macro from Kingcombe

These are the  images that I took on the last two mornings at Kingcombe Lodge. The Blue-tailed Damselfly has 5 female forms.The top is one of the immature forms, rufescens, which has a salmon pink thorax (violacea has a violet thorax) . When mature the female has 3 colour forms: typica is blue like the male, infuscans has an olive green thorax and brown tail spot and infuscans-obseleta has thorax in pale brown with a blue tail. Difficult to see what evolutionary advantage of maintaining all these variants! The reeds have a large population of Long-jawed Orb Web Spider, here seen catching a Damselfly and spinning its egg cocoon on a leaf. The Grasshopper and the Midge were warming in the early sun.