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Found this in Broubster forest this afternoon, am thinking it has to be some kind of Hawker, biggest dragonfly I have ever seen, wish I had had a measure with me 2.5" or may be longer.
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Found this in Broubster forest this afternoon, am thinking it has to be some kind of Hawker, biggest dragonfly I have ever seen, wish I had had a measure with me 2.5" or may be longer.
Looks like a Common Aeshna to me. Aeshna juncea. If the spots are blue it's a male, if green, female. Average length 3".
Many thanks the marks were pale yellow and very pale green at least that's what my eye was seeing!
Very handsome insect there was what I think was an Azure Hawker there too, smaller but brilliantly irredescent.
Hi LIZZ
Was this the dragonfly that you saw, Golden-ringed Dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltonii)
Golden-ringed Dragonfly.
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nirofo.
No saddly the markings on that one are not the same nirofo.