What’s this insect? He’s a big one.

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  August 2020 edited August 2020

  Dragonfly.
  https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/golden-ringed-dragonfly/
  

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  August 2020

  I’ve never seen one so big. Fascinating especially as I don’t have a pond

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  August 2020

  That’s a dragonfly  ... beautiful isn’t it?
  
  

  I think it might be a female Southern Hawker but I’m probably wrong. Someone on here will know. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  August 2020

  Yes, one of the dragonflies known as Hawkers, possibly Southern Hawker or Migrant Hawker

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  August 2020

  Yours looks like a Southern Hawker but you can check it on here
  
  https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/odonata/dragonflies-2/#:~:text=Dragonflies%20are%20insects%20in%20the,%2Dorder%20Zygoptera%20(damselflies). 
  
  

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  August 2020 edited August 2020

  It's one or the other @Dovefromabove
  
  There will be some water of some kind nearby @Ilikeplants
  If those markings on the side are blue-y, it'll be a hawker. 
  Lovely to see them isn't it?

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  August 2020

  So impresssive. From the links above I think he could be a common hawker? Yellow green rather than blueish. He or she is a big one.

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• bertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697

  August 2020

  It is a male southern hawker from the colour and hind claspers.
  

  Beautiful insect.
  

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  August 2020

  Thanks, I’ll take that. He was flying around, so fascinating.

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• Biglad Posts: 3,265

  August 2020

  Whopper!

  East Lancs

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