Hello Caroline, just looked at your damselfly pics & reached for my Field Guide to Dragonflies and Damselflies of the GB and Ireland for reference (which I heartily recommend). I wonder whether the first is a male Common Blue (the mushroom shaped black mark on the 2nd segment) & whether the 2nd photo is a male Azure Damselfly(U shaped mark on segment 2 of abdomen)? Mind you I'm no expert! Linda
Thank you very much, Linda, for your help here. I kept looking at the second to see if it looked more azure than blue, but didn't get as far as checking the markings against the Azure.
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Hello Caroline, just looked at your damselfly pics & reached for my Field Guide to Dragonflies and Damselflies of the GB and Ireland for reference (which I heartily recommend). I wonder whether the first is a male Common Blue (the mushroom shaped black mark on the 2nd segment) & whether the 2nd photo is a male Azure Damselfly(U shaped mark on segment 2 of abdomen)? Mind you I'm no expert! Linda
Thank you very much, Linda, for your help here. I kept looking at the second to see if it looked more azure than blue, but didn't get as far as checking the markings against the Azure.
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