Wide-bodied Darter (Plattbauch)
A young male, not yet changed totally from yellow to blue.
Banded demoiselle
Seen in the Lobau
Scarlet Dragonfly
Seen in the lobau
Keeled Skimmer
being shy
keeled Skimmer
showing off wings in the lobau
here comes the sun!
Admiral butterfly soaking up the sunshine.
Keeled Skimmer, Kleiner Blaupfeil, Orthetrum coerulescens
Red-eyed Damselfly (f), Grosses Granatauge (f), Erythromma najas
The female has a green body, the male blue. A first sighting for me.
Resting next to a pond at the Municipal Flower Gardens
soaking up sun in the national park
Scarlet Dragonfly (Feuerlibelle)
male. Seen on the Schlossinsel at Schoss Orth, Lower Austria
Small moth
Presumably the common Mottled Beauty (Rindenspanner). Seen in our garden.
Silver-washed Fritillary (Kaisermantel)
On a butterfly bush near our house
Painted Lady (Distelfalter)
Sail Swallowtail (Segelfalter)
backlit, on a butterfly bush near our house
Balancing Act
Dragonfly in the lobau park
Grosser Blaupfeil - Black-tailed skimmer
Aeshna isoceles (green-eyed hawker - Keilflecklibelle)
A rare find in the Lobau
Ol' Green Eyes
Banded demoiselle (Gebänderte Prachtlibelle)
Four-spotted Chaser (Vierflecklibelle)
Lesser purple emperor (Kleiner Schillerfalter)
