Thursday 11 July 2019

Hawker

Back in the summer of 2016 our small garden pond was visited by a Southern Hawker Dragonfly

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I observed that this visitor must have been a female as she was egg laying, selecting various parts of the pond edge vegetation, stones etc

Fast forward three years. While gazing at the pond one sunny day I noticed an empty larval case on a plant stem little way into the pond over deeper water. This was the interesting enough until I spotted the fully emerged Southern Hawker just above.

This is clearly an offspring of that female that visited in 2016 as the larvae spend two full years under water. Amazing that a small garden pond plays host to such a magnificent insect





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