As you know, I’ve been having a lot of trouble catching flying insects and birds with my camera and of those that I have photographed there are a number of UFO’s to identify – mostly variations on housefly-type flies. So, I was delighted to capture this Beautiful Demoiselle. That is its actual name. It’s green metallic body and translucent brown wings mark it out as a female. The males have a metallic blue body and dark blue shiny wings. They are found along streams and rivers and mainly distributed in Wales and the South West.
UPDATE – I managed to catch a photo of a male Beautiful Demoiselle. Quite different to the female with metallic blue body and black translucent wings.
Is your toadstool instagrammable?
Well, this one clearly isn’t as its sticky top is covered with bits of grass, where I’ve been strimming the steps down into the watermeadow. I deliberated whether it would make a suitable picture and I still haven’t identified it. To be honest, I don’t know where to start with that, so it doesn’t qualify for its own post. However, I could add a generic ‘toadstools’ item to my tally to be going on with.