On Monday's walk at Farlary we'd seen little in the way of notable insects - the most common by far is a small, beige moth which inhabits the heather - until....
....we sat beside this pond towards the end of our walk. The only exception was....
....this common darter. However, above and around the water the air was thick with dragon- and damselflies including masses of....
....emerald damselflies....
...and black darters. A larger dragonfly, which may have been a four-spotted chaser, appeared for a few minutes, during which it was harassed by all the others.
Although the male isn't the expected jet-black, I'm fairly certain that these are black darters mating.
Not unexpectedly, we didn't see much in the way of butterflies. Two small tortoiseshells and a white were all we saw until shortly before we left, when this small copper appeared and alighted on a stone to warm itself in the sunshine.
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