Male & Female Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens)
I have a small number of favourite sites I return to year after year, in between exploring new one's in and around Sussex.
At one of these, one of my mid-summer joys is watching these delicate Damselflies darting over the water's surface, as if playing hop-scotch.
The Demoiselle can only truly be appreciated up close, so I did my best to do just that for this short video:
The banded demoiselle is a species of damselfly belonging to the family Calopterygidae. It is often found along slow-flowing streams and rivers. It is a Eurasian species occurring from the Atlantic coast eastwards to Lake Baikal and northwestern China. This is a common species throughout much of its range.
Similar species: Dragonflies And Damselflies
By Philip Booker
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Uploaded Sep 28, 2020. Captured Jun 25, 2020 14:45 in Unnamed Road, Lewes BN8 5BX, UK.
