Above is clearly a Large Red Damselfly in my garden today.
Above is the amazing copulating circle of a Damselfly. Is it a Large Red? I'm not sure.
Actually Yes! Compared to the above post-coital pair of the Large Reds above, about to lay eggs, they appear to be the same species. The female abdomen is described as more heavily marked with black; the thorax sometimes yellow striped. That fits those above. And they tolerate the still water of my ponds.
By contrast slow-moving water and large lakes are preferred by the White-legged Damselfly, which figures as the below picture was from the Loder valley this afternoon
A rather large Dragonfly will have emerged from the empty larva skin above, by my pond.
Insects are just fascinating at any time, especially Damselflies now.
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