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Archive images - May 2025

Azure Damselfly
  Azure Damselfly, Linslade Woods, 29 May 2025.
  




Golden-haired Robberfly
  Golden-haired Robberfly, Linslade Woods, 29 May 2025.
  




Sawfly - Tenthredo mesomela
  Sawfly (Tenthredo mesomela), Linslade Woods, 29 May 2025.
  




Beautiful Demoiselle
  Beautiful Demoiselle (male), River Ouzel, 21 May 2025.
This was the first of this species seen in the locality.
The male's wings are dark all over, unlike the Banded Demoiselle.
  




Banded Demoiselle - male
  Banded Demoiselle (male), River Ouzel, 21 May 2025.
This species has been seen locally for many years.
The male's wings have a band of colour.
  




Whitethroat
  Whitethroat singing, River Ouzel, 21 May 2025.
  




Orange Tip butterfly - female
  Orange Tip butterfly (female), Linslade Woods, 21 May 2025.
The female does not have orange tips to its wings.
  




Speckled Wood butterfly
  Speckled Wood butterfly, Linslade Wood, 21 May 2025.
  




Garden Chafer Beetle
  Garden Chafer Beetle at Alwins Field, 19 May 2025.
  




Long-jawed Spider
  Long-jawed Spider (Tetregnatha extensa) at Tiddenfoot WP, 16 May 2025.
  




Common Blue Damselfly
  Common Blue Damselfly at Tiddenfoot WP, 16 May 2025.
There were hundreds of these.
  




Mallard duck with ducklings
  Mallard Duck with ducklings at Tiddenfoot WP, 16 May 2025.
She is an unusual light coloured duck, probably a cross with a domesticated one.
  




Common Mayfly - Ephemera danica
  Common Mayfly (Ephemera danica) at Tiddenfoot WP, 16 May 2025.
Hundreds of males were dancing in the air by the lake.
  




Coot chick
  Coot chick at Tiddenfoot WP, 16 May 2025.
  




Common Vetch
  Common Vetch in flower in Linslade Woods, 13 May 2025.
  




Red-headed Cardinal Beetle
  Red-headed Cardinal Beetle, Linslade Woods, 13 May 2025.
  




Shieldbug - Eysarcoris fabricii
  Shieldbug (Eysarcoris fabricii), Alwins Field, 12 May 2025.
  




White-legged Damselfly
  A White-legged Damselfly at Sandhouse Lane NR, 11 May 2025.
  




Holly Blue butterfly
  Holly Blue butterfly, All Saints churchyard, 10 May 2025.
The upper sides of the wings are blue.
  




Broad-bodied Chaser dragonfly
  An adult Broad-bodied Chaser dragonfly, feeding in the hedge at Alwins Field, 7 May 2025.
  




Cranefly - Nephrotoma atracapilla
  One of the early Crane Flies (Nephrotoma atracapilla), Alwins Field, 5 May 2025.
  




Broad-bodied Chaser dragonflies
  Broad-bodied Chaser dragonflies having just emerged from their larval shells (exuviae), Alwins Field, 2 May 2025.
Their wings are all "scrunched up" at first but are gradually inflated and then dried before they can fly away.
  




Blue-tailed Damselfly
  Blue-tailed Damselfly, Alwins Field, 1 May 2025.
  




Large Red Damselfly
  Large Red Damselfly, Alwins Field, 1 May 2025.
  



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