Dragonfly ? Mayfly?

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Gob
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Dragonfly ? Mayfly?

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Joe Guy
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It's a dragonfly.

Mayflies are fatter & shorter & uglier.

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Cheers Joe!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Daisy
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Flatwing Damselfly.

They're a bit skinnier than dragonflies. Pretty pictures, well done! Whenever I try to take pictures of insects they stay perfectly still right until I press the shutter button .

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I learned something new today thanks to you, Daisy.

I'd never heard of the damselfly. Apparently they only hang around in Australia and are related to the dragonfly.

Is that correct?

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We have a few species of Damselflies and their smaller cousins the Damoiselles in the UK and Europe, that's how I recognised it, I get a few Large Red Damselflies coming into my garden in the summer. They are very pretty and usually bugger off whilst I go and get the camera :)

And yes they are related to Dragonflies.

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