Hi Robbie7
The Odonata was one of my favourite subjects, used to give talks on the species and habitats. Have you visited the dragonfly centre at wicken fen, should be quite close to you, a bit too commercialised for me and not very productive for photography but it’s good to support these organisations, link below.
http://www.dragonflyproject.org.uk/
A good tip for photographing chasers is to find a bare bank on a pond, sit down and push a stick in at eye level facing slightly over the water and wait, if it doesn’t work that day come back the next, it’s best to use flash or you get these reflections from the water.

The Vernal equinox and I’m still looking out of the window at snow and ice with more to come. Frogs and newts are over a month late in my garden pond and my first post to this section was going to be new photos of an unusual Tachinid fly Tachina ursina, any other year would be on the wing this week – so when will we see spring

Southern hawker nymph


Broad-bodied chaser


Four-spotted chaser


Hylobious abietis (pine weevil)


Phyllobius pomaceeus (weevil)

Hi Tom
Look at the Sawfly family

Hi Robbie7 Try this web sight and you’ll find all the info you need for this group
http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/

Thanks for the welcome, hope you like hoverflies

Hope to see more of your work... also please click on (store the original) so that we pixel peepers can better appreciate your pics.[/quote]

Thanks, tried to store original and everything crashed

Thanks, just posted one in the macro section

Thanks for your welcome

Thanks for the welcome

Not so much water flat lemonade is better

Thanks for looking

looks are not everything with this hover, most of it's life is spent in cow pats

Thanks for looking

Thanks for the comment

Hi, this is one of the pictures I tried to post when I introduced myself on Saturday but everything went wrong, this is Rhingia campestris a hoverfly, about 3/16 – 5mm long. Nikon D1500 with Nikon 105 2.8 macro SB-900 off camera flash, shutter 1/200 F25 ISO 100.