A variety of pleas for identification!

[British Red]

Hi,

Had two lovely walks today and saw some lovely things and took some nice piccs

However a few things I'm struggling with and need some help from the wiser amongst us

First up a lovely dragonfly - we saw many of these - Green head and a much bluer body than the picture shows. Very large in size and certainly "patrolling" in behaviour

I'm tempted to say Southern Hawker but the size and colouration also makes me want to say Emperor - can anyone tell me for certain?

Next up a buttefly - I want to say one of the Fritillaries but the wing shape is throwing me - is it just damage?

Next a couple of fungi - this one I'm fairly sure is a giant puffball with a chunk missing - however not having seen one in this area before, I'd like some confirmation

Lastly this odd looking fungus. I know its old and may be hard to identify but the "petal" arrangement is confusing me (I know little about fungi anyway). The only one I have seen before that does that is a collared earthstar and I'm sure its not that

Any help with any / all would be much appreciated

Great day for a walk (or two in my case )

Red

 

[familne]

The butterfly is a Comma, need to look the others up.

 

[mikehill]

Southern Hawker it is ... have a look at this BB pic ...
Here
Mike.

 

[British Red]

Thanks guys!

Just the bottom Shroom to go !

Red

 

[Fenlander]

Southern Hawker it is ... have a look at this BB pic ...
Here
Mike.

In my opinion the dragonfly featured in your link is a Hairy Dragonfly (notice the hairy thorax) and I suspect Red's is the same.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N

Can you send me a high res. pic Hugh?

 

[British Red]

Will do Kevin - I'll post it here - may take a while - Dial up is chronically slow at the moment

Red

 

[British Red]

Heres a larger res one Kevin - I'll mail a higher res link to you shortly (too large for the forum)

Thanks for helping

Red

 

[familne]

I'd still go for Southern Hawker, most of the hawkers have some hair on the thorax, the hairy dragonfly is much downier, also abdomen markings not right for hairy.

 

[British Red]

Interesting! I didn't know beofre today that any Dragonflies were hairy

Is the damage to the rear wing normal?

Red

 

[Fenlander]

My apologies to MikeHill and all. I agree now that they are indeed Southern Hawkers!

One of the distinctive features is the yellow triangle on the second segment, which this clearly shown!

 

[British Red]

Thanks for the input all everyone - I'm delighted to know what it was for sure!

Red

 

[Dougster]

Is it me, or is it a mite too early for black blackberries too?

 

[British Red]

Seems early to me too - but they are all ripening round here

Red