Earlier this month, Orkney Field Club was invited by Pride in Orkney to help out with a wildlife event at Arcadia Park in Kirkwall. I happily volunteered as the park is a recently-created nature site in an urban environment, and although I have received records of damselflies being present during the last few Summers, I hadn't actually visited the place myself. A recce during May encouraged me that this will be a brilliant place to highlight wildlife, as the site matures and is developed with wildflower planting, tree planting and the creation of umpteen pools. One of the species of damselfly which had been reported from the park already this year was Blue-tailed Damselfly, and bearing in mind the organisation running the event, I thought this was a suitably interesting insect to promote on the day. Blue-tailed Damselflies Ischnura elegans have, as their name suggests, blue tails. Most of the abdomen (tail) is black, but segment 8 is a bright neon blue. In fact, when the damselfly