Emerald - My Favourite Damselfly

The Emerald Damselfly is definitely my favourite Damselfly, especially the mature male when the blue pubescence develops fully. I spent an hour trying to capture that 'perfect' image with focus stacking or single images - not succeeding but a very enjoyable exercise.

Butterfly and Dragonfly Survey Paxton

 Definitely lower numbers of Butterflies for our June Survey at Paxton but Dragonflies made up for it with large numbers of Common blue damselflies plus a few Azure and Variable and, mostly strikingly, very large numbers of Emerald damsels and in areas not previously recorded. Here a few images from the day, including male and female Emeralds and Banded Demoiselles, a species of  Potter Wasp, a Red-tipped Clearwing and  Wilke's mining Bee