Sussex Damselfy Photo Gallery Index

The Sussex Wildlifer Sussex Damselfly Identification Photo Gallery All images on this web site are copyright © Paul Lister/The Sussex Wildlifer 2010
Click thumbnail for enlarged view	Species Name Location and Date	Comments
	Mayfly Ephemera vulgata River Ouse 25 May 2008	These delightful creatures really do live up to their name - the first part, at least. There is nothing vulgar about them.
	Mayfly Ephemera vulgata River Ouse 25 May 2008
	Mayfly Ephemera vulgata River Ouse 1 June 2009
	Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella Pevensey levels: 13 July 2008	Males are pale sky-blue with black marks and a U-shape on the second segment of their abdomens. Females are either dark with green marks on thorax and abdomen, or blue.
	Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella Near Bolney: 8 July 2007	See above.
	Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella Bolney 8 June 2008	See above.
	Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella Upper Dicker: 3 May 2007	See above.
	Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella Upper Dicker: 3 May 2007	See above.
	Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella Upper Dicker: 3 May 2007	See above.
	Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella Bolney: 8 June 2008	Mating damselflies.
	Azure Damselfly Coenagrion puella Ashdown Forest: 21 July 2008	See above.
	Love is heart shaped... mating White-legged damselflies in traditional pose! Paltycnemis pennipes	See above.
	Blue-tailed Damselflies mating Ischnura elegans Pevensey Levels: 13 July 2008	Male and C-type female mating.
	Blue-tailed Damselflies mating Ischnura elegans Pevensey Levels: 13 July 2008	Male and A-type female mating.
	Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans Pevensey Levels: 13 July 2008	Sole male.
	Blue-tailed Damsefly Ischnura elegans Upper Dicker: 3 May 2007	This species comes in many different colours, the male being darkish, blue, black, the female very variable. Both have the diagnostic blue tail seen here
	Blue-tailed Damsefly Ischnura elegans Upper Dicker: 3 May 2007	See above.
	Blue-tailed Damsefly Ischnura elegans Upper Dicker: 3 May 2007	See above.
	Blue-tailed Damsefly Ischnura elegans Upper Dicker: 3 May 2007	See above.
	Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans Upper Dicker: 3 May 2007	See above.
	Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans Upper Dicker: 3 May 2007	See above.
	Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans Pulborough Wildbrooks: 16 July 2007	See above.
	Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans Batemans, East Sussex: 29 July 2007	See above.
	Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans Batemans, East Sussex: 29 July 2007	See above.
	Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum Upper Dicker: 3 May 2007	The male has a diagnostic mushroom/oval mark at the top of the abdomen, so you can tell it apart from the azure. Both sexes have blue eye spots joined by a black line.
	Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum Upper Dicker: 3 May 2007	See above.
	Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum Bedelands: 22 May 2007	See above.
	Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum Gower Peninsular: 22 July 2006	Broad Pool is located to the east of the main ridge area on the Gower and holds an interesting selection of birds and insects. Dragon and Damselflies abounded, but photography was made difficult with a stiff wind.
	Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum Bedelands: 25 July 2008	Female specimen.
	Common Blue Damselfly Enallagma cyathigerum Isfield: 5 July 2009
	Emerald Damselfly (Spreadwing) Lestes sponsa Pevensey Levels: 13 July 2008	A magical day out with the Sussex Branch of the Dragonfly Society on a private farm.
	Emerald Damselfly (Spreadwing) Lestes sponsa Pevensey Levels: 13 July 2008	See above. Theonly damselfly to habitually settle with its wings outstretched and hence the name spreadwing. What a little beauty!
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Haywards Heath Garden: 22 May 2007	Just look at the benefits that creating a small garden pond will bring. The females were soon ovi-positing and with luck we will see new LRDs hatching next year. That is, if the tadpoles or newts don't get them first. On the other hand, the boot could be on the other foot!
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Haywards Heath Garden: 22 May 2007	See above.
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Haywards Heath Garden: 22 May 2007	See above.
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Haywards Heath Garden: 22 May 2007	See above.
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Haywards Heath Garden: 23 May 2007	See above.
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Haywards Heath Garden: 23 May 2007	See above.
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Haywards Heath Garden: 22 April 2007	I was so thrilled when this damselfly turned up in the garden. Was this a recce? A month later to the day he was back with six others and a mating frenzy developed over the next three days.
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Haywards Heath Garden: 22 April 2007	See above.
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Loder Valley Reserve: 17 June 2005	See above.
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula River Ouse 25 May 2008	See above.
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula River Ouse 25 May 2008	See above.
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula Ashdown Forest 30 June 2008	See above.
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula My Sussex Garden 9 May 2009
	Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula My Sussex Garden 9 May 2009
	Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma najas Near Haywards Heath 8 June 2008	Normally well out in the middle of the water on a lily leaf, this one was just within reach.
	Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma najas Near Haywards Heath 8 June 2008	See above.
	Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma najas Near Haywards Heath 2 June 2009
	Small Red Damselfly Ceriagrion tenellum Ashdown Forest: 29 June 2008	An acid loving species and so rare within the county. Fortunately, this is a great location to see this species.
	Small Red Damselfly Ceriagrion tenellum Ashdown Forest: 29 June 2008	See above.
	Small-red Damselfly Ceriagrion tenellum Ashdown Forest: 21 July 2008	Still around almost a month later.
	Small Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma viridulum Isfield: 5 July 2009	An interesting private reserve in East Sussex.
	Small Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma viridulum Isfield: 5 July 2009
	Variable Damselfly Coenagrion pulchellum Secret location near Haywards Heath: 9 May 2009	Note the darker blue colour and the exclamation mark on the abdomen.
	Variable Damselfly Coenagrion pulchellum Secret location near Haywards Heath: 9 May 2009	See above.
	Variable Damselfly Coenagrion pulchellum Secret location near Haywards Heath: 9 May 2009	See above.
	Variable Damselfly Coenagrion pulchellum Secret location near Haywards Heath: 9 May 2009	See above.
	Variable Damselfly Coenagrion pulchellum Secret location near Haywards Heath: 12 May 2009
	Variable Damselfly Coenagrion pulchellum Secret location near Haywards Heath: 21 May 2009
	Variable Damselfly Coenagrion pulchellum Secret location near Haywards Heath: 21 May 2009
	White-legged Damselfly Paltycnemis pennipes Near Bolney: 8 July 2007	I needed help with this one and Sam Bayley, the warden at Warnham Nature Reserve, came up trumps. He explained that the extra long looking abdomen is what to look for in the field.
	White-legged Damselfly Paltycnemis pennipes Nymans Woods 9 June 2008	See above.
	White-legged Damselfly Paltycnemis pennipes Bolney: 15 Juny 2008	Male specimen.
	White-legged Damselfy Paltycnemis pennipes Sheffield Park Woods: 19 July 2008	Female specimen.

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