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Thursley Common - sand digger wasp, woodland grasshopper, keeled skimmer + others

Friday, August 6, 2010 7:02:27 PM

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On the second day at Thursley the weather was switching between cloudy and sunny. The first thing of note was this sand digger wasp sitting on some heather.
sand digger wasp 3

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Thursley Common - Lizards, tiger beetles and dragonflies

Thursday, August 5, 2010 8:05:46 PM

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As you may have gathered from my last post, I recently visited Thursley Common, a site famed for having more dragonfly species than any other site in Britain. But one of the highlights on the first day was the common lizards that were basking on the many boardwalks.
common lizard 2

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crockford bridge dragonflies

Sunday, September 20, 2009 5:29:10 PM

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While in the New Forest we visited the well know dragonfly and damselfly site at Crockford Bridge. This site is well known as one of the best places to see the rare southern damselfly, but September is too late in the year to see this species (see here). On my first visit it was cloudy and a bit breezy, and I did not even see a common darter. All there was of interest was the large species of pond skater

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Thursley common Dragonflies and Damselflies

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 8:28:10 PM

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Thursley Common is famous for its dragonfly diversity. In fact you can find more species of dragonfly and damselfly at Thursley Common than any other site in the UK, with 28 species having been recorded! (Smallshire and Swash, 2004). One of the site specialities is the small red damselfly, a species found only on boggy heathland like those at Thursley Common and a new one for me.This is a male.

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