Food and Habits: Catches prey in flight or on leaves of foliage or even from spiders webs. Habitat and Range: Widespread and common throughout most of the UK; found around still waters of all kinds, including polluted ponds.
| Description: Abdomen usually black with 8th segment bright blue in both sexes, but female sometimes lacks blue. Pterostigma bicoloured. Food and Habits: Catches prey in flight or on leaves of foliage or even from spiders webs. Habitat and Range: Widespread and common throughout most of the UK; found around still waters of all kinds, including polluted ponds. |