Emporer moth

Emporer moth
By Peter Byles

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Rare dragonfly

Jon B found a female Vagrant Emperor (A. ephippiger) on the coast path near St Davids. This is a very rare dragonfly in UK. Comes from North Africa/Med.
The lack of blue on segment 2 is because from the anal appendages shows it is a female.

3 comments:

  1. Hey Andy when was this found then?

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  2. Wow I have never seen any adult dragonfly in January , surely its some kind of record?

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