Breaking-out

23rd May 2008, Friday

The sequence of pictures below taken this morning at Castle Water, show a male Four-spotted Chaser in the first stages of emergence.  Six other individuals were also going through the same process nearby and 21 exuvia were found amongst the emergent vegetation. Ten Hairy Hawker exuvia were also found.

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