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Pond creatures

Sunday, 30. August 2009, 16:23:58

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I set a quiz yesterday to ID the pond creatures in this photoThe answers are:
A: Greater pond snail
B: Waterlouse
C: Dragonfly nymph - this is probably a darter dragonfly nymph
D: Lesser water boatman

I got some other photos that day. Here is the darter dragonfly nymph, with a brave stickleback fry to the right of it

I got a close photo of the lesser water boatman


ANd one of its bigger relative the greater water boatman, also known as the backswimmer

There were also an number of the smaller diving beetle species

Hello and welcome to the UK WILDLIFE BLOGScarce emerald damselfly at Wat tyler

Comments

ERWIN 30. August 2009, 18:35

Wow nice and very well done

Words 31. August 2009, 00:10

Nice shots, and even better with identity-attached.

Anonymous 2. September 2009, 20:16

WesDigital writes:

Thanks for sharing this information. I wanted to do some macro shots of freshwater insects this summer but I never got the time to give it a go. Nice blog.

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