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| Species of the Month - May 2014 Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula
The Large
Red Damselfly can turn up almost anywhere. It will breed in lochs,
ponds, ditches, bog pools and the slower parts of burns. When not
ready to breed it can be found at some distance from water.
A pair in tandem at a
bog pool and another on water-lily leaves at a loch.
The male has no black on abdominal segments 2-6 (above left) and is also narrower than the female (above right), who has variable amounts of black on the abdomen but always some black on segments 5 and 6 at least. (There are 10 abdominal segments altogether. No's 1, 9 and 10 are very short)
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Carl Farmer
3 May:
Three seen in different locations at Inverawe by
Carl Farmer and Joanne Simms. Have seen several there since.
9 May: One seen at Barcaldine near garden pond by
Clive Craik
11 May: One seen near Benderloch
19 May: One seen at Taynuilt. More seen
since.
24 May: Several seen in Ardmaddy Gardens during SWT
Open Day
27 May: Judith reports two tandem pairs laying eggs
in Drimfern Ponds, Glen Aray
31 May: Sallie saw several at Inchree
Apr 2014 - Hedgehog
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