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Guilding The Lily
A robust and conspicuous damselfly, found in lakes, gravel pits, canals and slow-flowing rivers often perched on water lillies and other surface vegetation.

Males hover over a chosen Lily Pad or other emergent plant, taking short forays across the water. Females usually stay in the undergrowth close to shore, visiting water to mate or oviposit.

One particular observation was seeing them all rise from the surface of the river with the disappearance of the sun, taking refuge in the bank-side grasses. As soon as the sun reappeared, the males would immediately fly back to their former positions.

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New Forest
Broomy Pond Blashford Lakes Badminston Common Burley Heath Cadnam Common
Hatchet Pond Keyhaven Ober Water Slufter's Pond Eyeworth Pond

Dorset
Alder Hills Dunyeats Hill Higher Hyde Heath Kilwood Copse Moors Valley

Surrey
Bolder Mere Esher Common Papercourt Lock Thundry Meadows Thursley Common

Somerset
Shapwick Heath Westhay Moor

Berkshire
Swinley Forest

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