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Azure damselfly

Coenagrion puella

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Description:

A brilliantly blue damselfly around 33cm in length. Differentiated from the common blue by the flat bottomed U on the second section of the abdomen.
There were several of these and also some female blue taileds on just one patch of nettles in the sun.

Habitat:

seen at Old Moor reserve on a patch of nettles near a marshy area. Owned by the RSPB

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PublishedJune 3, 2013

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