I thought having taken a few hundred photos the other day of the Southern Emerald Damselfly, that I would post a few more shots to show off some of their identification features. Probably one of the most obvious features are the bi-coloured pterostigma which stand out well. The anal appendages on the male are quite white and there is also an isolated spot on the side of the thorax. With some patience and fieldcraft, you can sometimes get quite close and when they do fly, they often fly just a short distance. I tend to find them in dried up ditches but with so much land not viewable to the general public, I suspect that more are out there. Whilst they have a few loyal places in Kent where they can often be seen, they do often wander and only a day or so again, an individual was found in a garden on the North coast in Whitstable. A migrant or a local wanderer, I suppose that is the question. I would like to think that this species can continue to thrive in its current locations and even spread to pastures new. Either way, it's certainly a cracking good damselfly to study and photograph.
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