Dragonflies, butterflies & grasshoppers

Flying blue-winged grasshopper (Oedipoda caerulescens)

Red-veined darter (Sympetrum fonscolombii) in silhouette during sunrise

Two male orange tips (Anthocharis cardamines) on cuckooflower in high-key

White-tailed skimmer (Orthetrum albistylum) covered in dew at sunrise

Mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa)

Detail of the wing of a male beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo)

Close-up of saddle-backed bush-cricket (Ephippiger diurnus)

Marbled white (Melanargia galathea) in backlight

Male large gold grasshopper (Chrysochraon dispar)

Leaping large marsh grasshopper (Stethophyma grossum)

Knapweed fritillary (Melitaea phoebe) at sunrise

Sooty copper (Lycaena tityrus) in dew covered field of grass

Knapweed fritillary (Melitaea phoebe) covered in dew drops sitting on buttercup

Large copper (Lycaena dispar) female in backlight

Greenhouse camel cricket (Diestrammena asynamora) in backlight

Male saddle-backed bush-cricket (Ephippiger diurnus) on heather

Large conehead (Ruspolia nitidula) at sunset

Praying mantis (Mantis religiosa) in twilight

Portrait of male mottled grasshopper (Myrmeleotettix maculatus)

Detail of dew covered female black-tailed skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum)

Banded darter (Sympetrum pedemontanum) against rising sun

White-tailed skimmer (Orthetrum albistylum) in grassland at sunrise

Banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) covered in dew

Male woodland grasshopper (Omocestus rufipes)

Female scarlet darter (Crocothemis erythraea) covered in dew drops