Taken with an cheap Aldi Traveller camera.

 

found this on the crane at work not phased at all by moving the hooks . hand in shot is for sizing .it was a big bugger

Must be a dragonfly/ crane fly cross

I'll get my coat

Must be a dragonfly/ crane fly cross

I'll get my coat

 

gutted how did I miss such a massive DAD joke 

More dragonflies (@ Clumber Park):

 

 

 

I noticed quite a few photographers at Clumber/Sherwood forest last week when I biked down NCR6 to Sherwood pines.

Thought I'd post a couple more for you...

 

I think the blue one is an Azure Damselfly but either way it crawled out of the windscreen vent in the Fabia a few years ago when I was batting up the A1.  Gave us quite a shock and we quickly got off at the next junction so that we could remove it before it caused too much of a distraction.

 

 

The other one I think is a Hawker Dragonfly of some sort that appeared in our garden a while back.  Doesn't look it in the photo but it was about 3 inches long.

Edited 17 November, 20169 yr by skomaz

Edit - double post...

Edited 17 November, 20169 yr by skomaz

I think it's a preying mantis - taken in Mallorca a month ago.