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A surprise visitor to my garden a few years ago...

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xj900uk

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During COVID 2021 I was very surprised to find a gigantic brown dragonfly in my garden, apparently this is a Brown Hawker and they are uncommon for this area. It is very unusual to find them far from a still or slow moving body of water as they can not fly very far. It has a wingspan of over four inches and is one of Britain's largest flying insects...

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DeanMcStabs said:
Dragonflies are super cool. A lot of people consider them good luck charms, if you believe in that sort of thing :p
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Well it was lucky it ended up in my garden. I think it was a bit lost and exhausted. It spent best part of an hour on the fence post regaining its strength in the sunshine, and then buzzed off somewhere and I never saw it again.
I had no idea what sort of dragonfly it was, I sent some of the photos to my local wildlife center and they told me it was a 'Brown Hawker', I forget whether male or female.
 
Only ever seen a Dragonfly once and that was when i used to maintain a garden i created for friends, few years back/
The other thing i have seen once when i was at work, was a Hawk moth, must have been three or four inches across, brown in colour looked like a dead leaf, and another time i was riding my bike and i had to stop due to a problem with my rear brake, gets off the bike and noticed something on my leg, another Hawk moth but this time it was green in colour, i carefully lifter it off my leg and placed it in a tree, yes i love nature?
 
Otto Von Herunterhängen said:
Praying Mantis's I see all the time at the end of summer. If they are sitting on a twig I admire them. If they start flying I bravely run away screaming.
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We don't get Praying Mantis' in this country, at least not yet (if UK summers continue to get hotter and hotter, that situation may change!) but I have seen them in teh wild in Greece. Sadly photographing them was impossible,
 
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