The dragonfly season is already under way, although here I still haven't seen any dragonflies and damselflies in the south of the country. It's time to prepare though, as during May, several species emerge...

Following on my project last year Yorkshire Dragonfly Quest 2018 , with the aim of observing all the breeding species of Yorkshire dragonflies, this year I'm spearheading a collaborative, citizen science...

I kneeled down and crept closer. The butterfly stood tiptoeing exposing its wings fully to the low afternoon sun, warming up. I was on the coastal path by the low cliff top at Spurn Head, a well known...

While spending some time in the garden pruning trees, deadheading and generally pottering around I have come across several species of shieldbug. The top shot shows a Corizus hyoscyami , a species which...

On the way back from work I popped in my local wildlife garden. I was looking for dragonfly exuviae in the small pond when I gasped: A female Southern Hawker had materialised like out of nowhere and was...

This morning I watched several males of the Small Red-eyed damselfly at North Cave Wetlands, a YWT nature reserve with a diversity of large lakes, shallow reed bed lakes and dragonfly ponds (top shot)....

After egg laying, female damselflies and dragonflies can be exposed to males trying to mate. Females will then be unreceptive and in order to avoid a lengthly and potentially costly copulation, they have...

I went to the wildlife garden on my walk to the school run. I was lucky to find a just emerged damselfly. It was sitting on top of its larval skin (top shot) on a leaf. There were other dry exuviae on...

It's 30 days wild! I am joining again this June, trying to see, record and find out about as much wildlife as I can - and reviving BugBlog, which has been dormant far too long. I will make a especial effort...

There are 45 dragonfly and damselfly species in the UK, of which 23 breed in East Yorkshire. I was amazed to find that 15 of these have established themselves in the county only after WWII. The recent...