Brown Hawker Aeshna grandis
Female Brown Hawker, Monks Eleigh Garden, Suffolk, England, July 2007 - click for larger image Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, England
July 2007

The Brown Hawker is distributed in lowland England and Ireland as well as western and central Europe. It is common and widespread. The flight season is from June to October.
Female Brown Hawker, Monks Eleigh Garden, Suffolk, England, July 2007 - click for larger image The photos here show a female ovipositing in my garden pond. It has amber-coloured wings and yellow bars on the side of the thorax. The male has blue spots along the side of the abdomen, bluish eyes and a "waist".

They will mate in the tree tops then the male leaves the female to go on her own to find a site for ovipositing.

There is a page from the British Dragonfly Society and a distribution map is available from the National Biodiversity Network.
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