Working to conserve dragonflies and their wetland habitats

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  • The Beauty in the Beast is a new book by Hugh Warwick.  It is a portrait of some of the UK’s best-loved wild animals and birds and the enthusiasts who champion their cause.  The book features Ingrid Twissell, the Gloucestershire VCR who spent a day with Hugh teaching him about dragonflies.

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  • Southern Damselfly

    A beautiful but endangered damselfly is being  helped thanks to habitat work funded by Environment Wales. This exciting partnership between the British Dragonfly Society (BDS),  Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority (PCNPA) and Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) has created  valuable new habitat for the rare Southern Damselfly. 

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  • Recorders Day 2012

    Over forty recorders and enthusiasts attended the annual meeting of the Dragonfly Recording Network at the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust’s Wolseley Centre on Saturday 24th March.  The programme was extremely varied with topics ranging from the new atlas, reintroduction of the White Faced Darter in Cumbria and how the DRN records are used to benefit conservation.

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Dragonflies

Welcome to the new website of the British Dragonfly Society.  The site has lots of new features including a completely new online recording system and online shop.  If you want to join the BDS or make a donation you can do that here.  There is a new section on the biology and ecology of dragonflies plus details of the best places to see them.   

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How You Can Help

 

The BDS needs your support. Although many species of dragonfly are doing well almost a third of our species are in decline.  We need volunteers to complete recording for our new national Atlas progress project.  This map shows progress up  to the end of 2011.

Atlas progress March 2012

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Star of the Month

Hairy DragonflyThe recent weather has given a poor start to the season but we should be seeing the first Hairy Dragonflies which are the first of the hawkers to emerge.  Found mainly in the south and west of England. The zig-zag flying males are seen patrolling their territories around still water bodies.  Unlike other hawkers it has a noticeably downy thorax.  This photo by David Kitching.


 

 


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