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21-07-2010, 09:42 PM
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| | | dainty damselfly is back!
Just read this on the BBC website BBC News - Beautiful 'lost' insect turns up anew in UK
Great news. Ever since I've been reading about dragon + damselflies this is the one that went extinct. Hopefully it will colonise and spread. My work is literally the other side of the Thames to the Isle of Sheppey  |
21-07-2010, 10:08 PM
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Evening Neil,
Excellent, though I was kind of hoping they were re-discovered a little nearer to their last site to entertain hopes they'd just been ' missed' in the last 50yrs.
Great news though, let's hope they spread-out. First the Small Red-eyed, then the Willow Emerald colony and now this! I wonder which will come next?
Take care, Jason  |
22-07-2010, 04:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Jason Green  Evening Neil,
Excellent, though I was kind of hoping they were re-discovered a little nearer to their last site to entertain hopes they'd just been ' missed' in the last 50yrs.
Great news though, let's hope they spread-out. First the Small Red-eyed, then the Willow Emerald colony and now this! I wonder which will come next?
Take care, Jason | There's been 3 Southern Emerald down in Kent recently, though this species has occasionally been recorded before. |
22-07-2010, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by aeshna5 There's been 3 Southern Emerald down in Kent recently, though this species has occasionally been recorded before. | Ah yes, I've heard - but the WE is said to have had a ' colony' last year which made me think it had more breeding potential. Still, why not mention that too! |
22-07-2010, 08:08 AM
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Great News, Neil. Thanks for posting the link or I'd have missed it. It would be great if they do manage to re-establish here.
Anyone know what happened to the Willow Emeralds? Did our harsh winter wipe them out again?
Dave P.
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22-07-2010, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by pressld2 Great News, Neil. Thanks for posting the link or I'd have missed it. It would be great if they do manage to re-establish here.
Anyone know what happened to the Willow Emeralds? Did our harsh winter wipe them out again?
Dave P. | There have been some recent reports of Willow Emerald, though so far not the numbers reported last year. There were quite a few Suffolk sites reporting them last year + at least one from Fingrinhoe Wick, Essex. |
22-07-2010, 05:46 PM
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Thanks Aeshna. They're such beautiful creatures it would be lovely if they are here to stay.
Dave P.
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22-07-2010, 05:53 PM
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Hi.
There was c15 Willow Emeralds reported near Felixstow in Suffolk on the 18th July.
David
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22-07-2010, 07:14 PM
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Apparently good numbers of Lesser Emperor + Southern Migrant Hawker on the near continent at the moment, with a few of the former along the south coast + there have been 2 reports of the latter from Essex which is a major rarity, but possibly overlooked.
We've already had 2 Lesser Emperors from the London area this season. |
22-07-2010, 07:22 PM
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Excellent news. I'm chuffed for Gill and John.
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