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This 'streamside butterfly' is our most familiar riverine odonate. It is a variable species and numerous forms have been named.

dragonfly landed on field closeup a summer day

A Large metallic damselfly with fluttering, butterfly-like wings resting in foliage

Bavaria, Germanay. Close-up of a beautiful opend Blue-winged Demoiselle Calopteryx virgo Dragonfly with green Background.

Close-up of a banded damselfly (Calopteryx splendens) sitting on a blade of grass. The background is blurred and green. The wings are clearly visible.

Gerris lacustris Common Water Strider Insect. Digitally Enhanced Photograph.

Close-up of a male Emerald Damselfly (Lestes Sponsa) holding on to a straw

Ruddy Darter Red Dragonfly perched on a reed leaf in Woodwalton Fen nature reserve.

blue dragonfly is sitting on grass in a meadow. insect dragonfly close up macro

$Tot 42-45mm, Ab. 25-29mm, Hw 32-38mm.\n\nGeneral: A local species throughout our area that prefers slow-moving waters, bordered with tall emergent vegetation. The appearance of the male changes dramatically with maturation; vivid orange abdomen turn into black and grey-blue territorial males. \nMales frequently perch on waterside plants, making darting flights between perches.\nHabitat: Appears to require a certain combination of water quality and habitat structure (such as Reed borders). Include slow flowing rivers and streams, abandoned canals, reedy lakes and ditches, oxbows and fishponds.\nFlight Season: From April to early August, but activity concentrated in May and June in most of range.\nDistribution: Widespread through M Europe, habitat specific, therefore locally common.\n\nIn the Netherlands the Dragonfly is local common. The Males have a blue Abdomen.$

Beautiful dragonfly Calopteryx splendens (female) sits on a blade of grass in the river, flaps its wings and waits for prey.

a dragonfly of the genus Demoiselle (Calopteryx) sits on a damp blade of grass in nature, against a green background

Close shot of a Libellula quadrimaculata, known in Europe as the four-spotted chaser.

Blue dragonfly on a plant stem in green grass.

$Field characters: 66-84mm, abdomen: 50-61mm, Hw: 45-52mm.\nBlue Emperor is presently a common species, which is only absent from parts of the northern provinces of Groningen and Friesland. It is found at most larger bodies of standing water. Compared to the pre-1990 period, the species has increased strongly. So is with other dragonflies, Blue Emperor has benefit of the gradual warming in the last decades.\n\nThe largest Aeshnid in most of our area and common Species in the Netherlands..$

$Beautiful red dragonfly on a stem.\nClose-up of a red colored male ruddy darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) hanging on vegetation. Resting in sunlight in a meadow.$

Extreme close up of a dragon fly head and wings

blue dragonfly on a branch close up macro photography

Wild grasses against a green background and a male common blue damsel fly hanging from it.

the beautiful dragonfly on a meadow closeup

$Field characters: Tot 56-64mm, Ab 43-54mm, Hw 37-42mm. Distinctly smaller than most Aeshna species.\n\nThe commonest small hawker. Numerous in much of our area, and although it can be on the wing during most months in the Mediterranean, further north it is especially associated with late summer and autumn, when it may appear in massive migrations. It is usually identified by its size, relative dull colours and the diagnostic yellow \$

A Banded Demoiselle poised on dead grass head in sunlight

Black-tailed skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum) male dragonfly on a dried reed - Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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