Comments on: Natural history illustrations of Dragonflies https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2014/06/natural-history-illustrations-of-dragonflies/ Natural History Illustration - for books, magazines & packaging Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:14:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lizzie Harper https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2014/06/natural-history-illustrations-of-dragonflies/#comment-239 Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:14:40 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3183#comment-239 In reply to Terence Taylor.

Hello Terence,
I know, they’re really big once they’re out of the context of a lake or pond, and must have felt chaotic in the house! I think a darter is a definite possibility. Migrant hawkers look pretty brown too, although with spots on. What an absolutely amazing experience though, and I know what you mean about pre-history crashing into your home! The size of the eyes is startling, isnt it? A good resource for species id is the British Dragonfly Society who have info on all our UK species. Also, I see them sometimes near me in Hay on Wye and I live nowhere near water, only happens occasionally. I think they cover quite bit ranges which could explain why you’re was an uncommon sight. Thanks for the comment! x

]]> By: Terence Taylor https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2014/06/natural-history-illustrations-of-dragonflies/#comment-236 Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:10:16 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3183#comment-236 Thanks very much for publishing these images. I used them to try to identify a winged intruder into the house through my open door and it’s attempts to crash out through a double glazed window.
It was surprisingly large the body being ( I estimate ) 100 mm long with a wing span of 130mm. Body 11mm in diameter, and much larger in the torso, the eyes were pea sized
It battered the glass with loud crashes and I feared it would harm itself. I was more concerned in saving it from its own destruction as it seemed it was intent on ramming the glass. So any attempt a studying it was lost in frantically trying to open windows for it to escape. It lived to fight another day and soared away as quick as it arrived.
One question.
My colour vision is not good, my wife tells me it was brown in colour. I can say it was glossy and it looked and sounded to be armoured plated. It’s unusual to see Dragonflies in my part of Bristol, I wondered what species my visitor was.
My guess a Common Darter but I never realised they get so big. To have a prehistoric creature flying around your kitchen came as a bit of a shock
Regards…….

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