Your Dragonfly is a male Emporer, in nice condition for the time of year too.

Oddly I noticed that most of my Clouded Yellow images seem to be of females, not sure why! I think females are more prone to dispersal in order to locate suitable foodplants upon which to lay eggs. That would explain it, I've yet to see an egg laying female. I've seen lots of courting but but never...

Arghh I was going to go and see if it was still there today but I couldn't make it! I wonder if there's a chance it will still be there tomorrow.

Well done lovely shots

Thank you kindly Bob and David, hope to see you out there again Bob

Oddly I noticed that most of my Clouded Yellow images seem to be of females, not sure why!

Pete Eeles wrote:I'd go with helice for all of the reasons given above

Cheers,

- Pete

Cheers Pete, I thought Helice was most likely, it looked a bit different when compared to my other Helice images, even more pale looking than the others, it's funny how little differences like that get your mind whirring.

Here's another Clouded Yellow that is probably a Helice but having looked through my reference books I'm still a bit uncertain. What do you guys think?

Test image

Pete Eeles wrote:When you make a post, there's a tab below the text field that says "Upload attachment". Click on that and all will be revealed

Cheers,

- Pete

Ah! thanks again Pete, I think I ought to downsize a few first, otherwise you might find your server stuffed full of enormous jpgs!

David M wrote:Hi 'Rex',

Welcome to the site. I agree about the standard of photography. I don't know how some of them do it!

Hello David, I'm not too sure either but I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of patience skill and probably a bit of blind luck might play a large part in it all

Pete Eeles wrote:Welcome to UKB! And don't be shy - would love to see your photos and hear your observations!

Cheers,

- Pete

Thanks Pete, I will certainly post some just as soon as I work out how to do it now where did I leave that brain of mine??

Hello good people :D I'm a long time lurker from East Sussex, in the course of my travels I have been fortunate enough to bump into some of you and I hope to meet many more fellow enthusiasts in the future. When I figure out how to upload photos I will post a 'test example' or two. The standard of p...