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This post is by Seona: I got freaked out earlier, I was sitting in the tunnel area having my morning ‘think’, and an ENORMOUS insect caught my eye – a dragonfly maybe, I’ve never seen the like – a noise like a helicopter, looked like a helicopter and as it got closer it looked even more huge! So then I freaked out as I thought it might eat me! What’s going on!..

The reply from the British Dragonfly Society…

Hello Seona,

The only large blue dragonfly previously recorded from Orkney is the Common
Hawker (Aeshna juncea). I suspect that this was the insect you saw. No need to flee though! Dragonflies are completely harmless to humans though they do eat enormous numbers of flies, mosquitoes and midges.

You can see some information and photos of this species at the British Dragonfly Society

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