A large dragonfly with green and blue spots hangs from a twig in a hedge. It is hanging vertically.
Male Southern Hawker for #libellente. At Blakehill nature reserve in Wiltshire a few years ago. The site is a former WW2 airfield which has been converted back to meadow. #dragonfly #UKWildlife #invertebrates #blauweglazenmaker
A large brown dragonfly with greenish yellow spots clings to a rather damp looking tree stump and pokes the ovipositor on the tip of her abdomen into it.
Southern Hawker for #libellente. Female laying eggs into a tree stump near, but not in, the water. This is characteristic behaviour of this species. #dragonfly #UKWildlife #invertebrates #blauweglazenmaker
A brown dragonfly flying low over the surface of a pond with lots of blanket weed.
This photo from Lower Moor Farm in August 2023 is the only one I have of a Brown Hawker in flight. It shows how the brown veins in the wings create a golden shimmer around the #dragonfly. #UKWildlife #invertebrates #bruineglazenmaker
A large brown dragonfly sitting on a stick and dipping the tip of her abdomen into the water. Her wings have golden brown veins.
Brown Hawker for #libellente. A female laying eggs into an underwater stick at Thursley national nature reserve in August 2024. #dragonfly #UKWildlife #invertebrates #bruineglazenmaker
A dragonfly with large green and blue spots on its abdomen and green markings elsewhere flying above an out of focus pond.
A Southern Hawker male in flight at Ravensroost Meadows in Wiltshire a few years ago. Rather please with this photo - they fly fast and aren't easy to get in focus. #libellente #dragonfly #UKWildlife #invertebrates #blauweglazenmaker
There's a third species for today's #libellente but Green Hawker is rude enough not to live in the UK or indeed ever to visit as a vagrant, so I'm going to have to ignore it due to never having seen one. #dragonfly #invertebrates
Today's second species for #libellente is the very distinctive Brown Hawker. The golden-brown tinge of the wings creates a golden blur around the insect while it's flying. These are very bulky hawkers as well as being very differently coloured to the others. #dragonfly #invertebrates
Day 29 of #libellente is another species with an increasingly-inaccurate name: Southern Hawker. It's spread to most of the country now thanks to climate change. A very colourful hawker with a tendency to come and investigate people who turn up in the area it's hunting in. #dragonfly #invertebrates
Flowers with rhinestones in the middle and a dragonfly.
A greyscale drawing of the dragonfly-like Crystaljack flying. Text at the top reads "87. Crystaljack. "The Elder Scrolls"" and the date at the bottom is 28/03/2026.
Sometimes you've just gotta have a nice, pretty dragonfly. Thus, the Crystaljack! I did say I needed more bugs, after all. I wanna do some fun colors for this one, I've got a red reference and a blue one. Might combine the two?
#365days #art #skyrim #bug #dragonfly
Künstlerische Darstellung von „Dragonfly“, wie es über den Dünen des Titan schwebt. Bildquelle: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
Mission Dragonfly startet mit Integration & Tests des Rotorflugzeugs
Zusammenbau des Rotorcraft-Landers für Mission unter harten Bedingungen, in Rein- & Kontrollräumen des Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, angelaufen.
Pressemitteilung NASA. #dragonfly
www.raumfahrer.net/mission-drag...
Yesterday, the "dragonfly" part of my #Dragonfly #Bracelet didn't post (which sorta defeated the point! 🤣). 🤦🤭 Here we go! #ChezBoyer
En natuurlijk het vrouwtje #kempenseheidelibel
#libellente #dragonfly #smallreddarter #nature #fotografie
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Dag 28 is ook voor de #kempenseheidelibel man
#libellente #dragonfly #smallreddarter #nature #fotografie
@libellenjan.bsky.social
En het vrouwtje #bandheidelibel...
#libellente #dragonfly #bandeddarter #nature #fotografie
@libellenjan.bsky.social
Dag 28 van #libellente is voor de #bandheidelibel man
#heidelibellen #dragonfly #bandeddarter #nature #fotografie
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Spotted Darter has never been seen in the UK, but the very similar Common Darter and Ruddy Darter are both quite common. #libellente #dragonfly #invertebrates
Two species for today's #libellente and neither has ever been seen in the UK. In the case of Banded Darter, I think we're entitled to think it's unfair we don't get to see it. Although we do have Banded Demoiselle to make up for it. #dragonfly #invertebrates
#Dag28 (B) #Libellente
Zeer zeldzame #Kempense_heidelibel
#Sympetrum_depressiusculum
#Marshland_Darter.
#Libel #Dragonfly
#Natuur #Nature
@libellenjan.bsky.social
#Dag28 (A) #Libellente
Zeldzame #Bandheidelibel
#Sympetrum_pedemontanum
#Banded_Darter.
#Libel #Dragonfly
#Natuur #Nature
@libellenjan.bsky.social
Cute little #dragonfly
#painting #traditionalart #TradArt #art #artwork #watercolor #artist #artwork #artsky #ink #abstract #ethereal
Our first pair up for round two… are you picking Odonata or Hemiptera!? 🐲🪰
Comment down below, you have until Monday to vote! 🗳️⬇️
#dragonfly #damselfly #cicadas #bugs #entomology
dragonfly on a lily pad
a gust of frogs
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #poetry #writingprompt #justwrite #dragonfly #gust
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Extremely out of focus red dragonfly hovering
Red dragonfly on top of a stick; too far away to get a clear shot.
Blurry red Dragonfly over the pavement.
Shadow of the dragonfly
Some very bad shots of a red #Dragonfly at the former golf course that’s rewilding. Little guys are fast #insect
A bright red dragonfly with red eyes, a brownish-red thorax and a wide, bright red abdomen, sits on a slightly battered wall which looks like concrete built to imitate marble. The wall is the edge of a fountain. Greenish water can be seen behind, out of focus.
Broad Scarlet #dragonfly for #libellente. This one was in a more expected place - the botanical gardens in Rome in September last year. It was completely ignoring people walking past, intent on defending the pond it had taken for its territory. #vuurlibel #invertebrates
Close up of a bright reddish-orange dragonfly, perched on a tiny branch against an out of focus light tan background.
Flame Skimmer dragonfly hanging out on a branch. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 + M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #dragonfly #insect #insectphotography #nature #naturephotography #amateurphotography #photography
A dragonfly sits on a rush stem. Its abdomen is bright red and quite wide. Its eyes and thorax are reddish brown. It has yellow patches at the base of its otherwise-clear wings (there are several common species that also have yellow patches on the wings - the broad and flat abdomen and lack of stripes on the thorax are the features to look for to identify this).
Broad Scarlet. 11 July 2025. Until last year I thought the ones I saw in Italy, where it's common, were the only ones I'd ever see. Then a small breeding group was found in Dorset. Isn't he beautiful? Highlight of my year last year. #libellente #vuurlibel #dragonfly #ento #UKWildlife
