Damselfly laying eggs

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Damselfly laying eggs by Ian Andrews as part of the Geograph project.

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Damselfly laying eggs

Image: © Ian Andrews Taken: 6 May 2011

This large red damselfly was far too busy laying her eggs on the underside of a water hawthorn leaf, to worry about a camera lens being stuffed in her face. A bit of a cheat really as the photo was taken on my garden pond.

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Image Location

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Latitude
50.713618
Longitude
-2.450781