What’s this bug?

[Cab-over Pete]

Aye up,

I’ve seen them before but don’t know what they are. Strange today as there are a whole bunch of them in one field, almost like a little flock. None in the field I walked before, none in the field after.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

 

[Forkdriver]

Damsel fly species, possibly the banded Demoiselle

 

[Bald Rick]

Beautiful demoselle (sp?)

 

[herman]

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Is it a damselfly ? or some type of dragonfly ?
Seen similar things to that before.

 

[robbie]

Dragon fly's get loads around here and green ones.

Last night I saw this one .......I swear you can see the pilot sittng in it!!!!!!

 

[Alias]

Damsel fly. Larvae live in water. We've had a lot more than usual this year for some reason.

 

[pycoed]

Dragon fly's get loads around here and green ones.

Last night I saw this one .......I swear you can see the pilot sittng in it!!!!!!View attachment 970743

That's a darter, which is one type of dragonfly, but the biggies are the Emperor Dragonflies:-https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/emperor-dragonfly/

 

[Bald Rick]

Beautiful demoselle (sp?)

My error ... it’s the Banded Demoiselle @Cab-over Pete

Banded demoiselle - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Beautiful Demoiselle has solid coloured wings

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Thank you, Banded Demoiselle it is then.

Loads of Dragonflies around this year, I love seeing them. I’m sure you get a faint wiff of jet fumes when they zoom by.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Definitely banded demoiselle, a male (as in my picture). They are very beautiful and have a slow, flappy flight like a butterfly and are usually found near slow flowing water. The female is an olive metallic green without the banding. We get loads of them here on our river.

 

[Princess Pooper]

That's a darter, which is one type of dragonfly, but the biggies are the Emperor Dragonflies:-https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/emperor-dragonfly/

Four spotter chaser I think @pycoed @robbie . https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/species/four-spotted-chaser/

 

[Kidds]

Half rate Decis should get them

 

[Princess Pooper]

2 of my favourites - white legged damselfly, a farm speciality, very delicate with a bouncy, floating flight a bit like a string puppet

and emerald damselflies, which breed in one of our ponds. They are not rare, but a bit picky about where they lay eggs.

 

[Flatlander]

Ohhh just great you get a sweet innocent damsel fly and I get 50 billion f ing grasshoppers per acre. Lol

 

[Kevtherev]

Thank you, Banded Demoiselle it is then.

Loads of Dragonflies around this year, I love seeing them. I’m sure you get a faint wiff of jet fumes when they zoom by.

What you been smoking?

 

[Wolds Beef]

@Kidds Why kill it if it is doing no harm. The threshold has not been met!!
WB

 

[Kidds]

@Kidds Why kill it if it is doing no harm. The threshold has not been met!!
WB

Purely tongue in cheek, I am careful what fungicides I use and their impact on beneficials never mind insecticides.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Ohhh just great you get a sweet innocent damsel fly and I get 50 billion f ing grasshoppers per acre. Lol

Thank your lucky starts it's grasshoppers, my cousin in the States and has those 17 year cicadas in his garden (luckily they don't do much damage), they are EVERYWHERE and very loud!

 

[Flatlander]

Thank your lucky starts it's grasshoppers, my cousin in the States and has those 17 year cicadas in his garden (luckily they don't do much damage), they are EVERYWHERE and very loud!

Nothing lucky about having grasshoppers. We’ve sprayed 1100 acres so far and hope the rest can stay below the threshold for spraying. Have sprayed every acre for the last three years and can confidently say I’ve used 50thousand dollars trying to protect the crops. My neighbour lost half his rye crop to them. Even once the stems were drying out they wouldn’t quit and chewed the heads off. Terrible seeing half the heads led on the ground. I show them no mercy.