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💷🐉 The Emperor Dragonfly comes in second! With almost 144,000 votes – a brilliant show of support for one of Britain’s most spectacular dragonflies! It may not be on the new banknotes, but we're delighted to see British wildlife taking centre stage. 🐝🦔🦉🐦 Congratulations to the winners! 👏

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🎬 Film Premiere – Beautiful & Banded Demoiselles

How do these two closely related damselflies behave when sharing a confined space?

Join Dagmar Hilfert-Rüppell & Georg Rüppell for a film exploring their threats, courtship and prey capture.

📅 14 Nov | 📍 Milton Keynes
🎟️ buff.ly/HIVJSB5

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🌿 Dragonflies on the Bog These photos, sent by our partners Glen Coe National Nature Reserve, show the difference habitat restoration can make: an unimproved bog pool drying out alongside a restored pool, full of water with records of Azure Hawker, Northern Emerald and White-faced Darter! 🐉

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Common Darter basking in the sun in Lambeth SE1 at lunchtime today. It has kept me company the whole time, occasionally flitting around the bench @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

A red bodied darter dragonfly, wings spread out, on a plain wooden garden table.
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The dragonfly season is not over yet! Red-veined Darter emerging 22 Sept at E Devon Beaver pond. Will this generation migrate back south, as Painted Lady does? @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

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🐉💚 Help us support the volunteers behind Britain’s dragonfly records!
👉 Donate: buff.ly/zkbdQaR

Our County Dragonfly Recorders help verify records and build a picture of how dragonfly populations are changing.

Your support could help us support this vital volunteer network. 💚
📸 Dave Smallshire

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Had fun trying to capture this Southern Hawker in flight. It was extremely inquisitive and came within arm's length - which is no good when you have a 600mm lens!

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Lots of Willow Emerald laying eggs into the stems of Grey Willow tonight despite a completely dried out pond. The female cuts tiny slits into the stem and deposits her eggs inside. Just need some rain now for the gamble to pay off! #Dragonflies #Wildlife #Ecology @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

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Coombe Hill Meadows Glos. today - 20+ Migrant Hawker (one pair being harassed by a Willow Emerald Damselfly), unfortunately one of the females was caught and eaten by a Moorhen! There were at least 15 Willow Emerald Damselfly including at least two teneral. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

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It's tricky from this angle but with the eye of faith I think I can see a black "moustache" line along the top of the face but not down the side, which would suggest Common Darter rather than Vagrant. Vagrant does appear in UK field guides but is extremely unlikely here.

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