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.
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
ReplyDeleteThank 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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