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Id dragonfly nymph?

FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
in Wildlife gardening
Anyone good with identifying dragonfly nymphs? Just spotted this on a stone at the bottom of the pond. It’s about 2.5 inches long ish... zoomed in as much as I could!

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It's too hard to tell sorry. Could even be a diving beetle nymph though.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Thanks. Don’t think it’s diving beatle as had a few last year and this looks quite different. I’m assuming it’s either a hawker emperor or chaser as we had a lot last year, was just curious. Nice spot with my morning cuppa though! 😀
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    He’ll eat your tads for you, probably why they say your lucky to get one frog from 100 tads.  Those large dragon flies are lovely though. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Yes, all in the cycle of life! British Dragonfly Society reckons Hawker or Emperor.. do love watching the emperors!
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Flinster said:
    [...] I’m assuming it’s either a hawker emperor or chaser as we had a lot last year, was just curious. Nice spot with my morning cuppa though! 😀
    Lucky you!
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    We have dragonfly nymph too, as pictured above, which mature into Emperor dragonfly.  We don't have any frogs or tadpoles, but do have newts.  Which ones eat the tadpoles?
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    They all do!
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