More Damselflies

  Large Red Damselfly  Click to enlarge.   Photo. John Elliott

 

 

 

Damselflies are emerging from my small garden pond in larger numbers than usual this year, the warmer winter may have helped. To tell the difference between the Large Red Damselfly and the slightly smaller Small Red Damselfly  you have to look at the legs, in the Large they are black and in the Small they are redish/yellowish.

Azure Damselfly.  Click ot enlarge.  Photo. John Elliott   

 

 

 

 

Azure Damselflies Ovipositing..  click to enlarge.  Photo. John Elliott  

 Six pairs of damselflies egg laying in a very small area of the pond. The upright bright blue ones are the males, which in this species stay guarding the female from other males and possible predators such as fish, and the females are the greenish, doubled up ones