Aeshna juncea at full spread — wings pinned and displayed against a warm linen ground, exactly as a Victorian naturalist would have presented it. Aeshna juncea. One of Britain's most spectacular hawker dragonflies, the Common Hawker's dark brown body is studded along its entire length with vivid sky-blue and yellow spots — a pattern that catches the light as it hunts through moorland, bog and upland woodland.
