Norfolk Hawker
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Aeshna isosceles
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Description
The Norfolk Hawker is one of 2 brown hawker dragonflies found in Britain. It has clear wings, green eyes and a yellow triangular mark on the second abdominal segment.
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The Norfolk Hawker is currently restricted to the fens and grazing marshes that are relatively isolated from polluted water in the Broadlands of Norfolk and Northeast Suffolk.
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The optimum conditions for breeding appear to be unspoilt grazing marsh dyke systems with clean, non-saline water, rush margins, preferably with an abundance of water soldier as well as other aquatic plants.
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A. isoceles