Paxton Pits Nature Reserve Designated as Dragonfly Hotspot
Paxton Pits Nature Reserve near St Neots has become the latest Dragonfly Hotspot The British Dragonfly Society has designated the local St Neots nature reserve a Hotspot and will be launched ‘virtually’ on Saturday July 18th 2020. Paxton Pits Nature Reserve is a rich mosaic of wildlife…
Attract Dragonflies to your Garden
Learn all about the BDS’s latest partnership Hotspot site, Exbury Gardens, and how your garden can also become a dragonfly-utopia! HOW TO ATTRACT BEAUTIFUL DRAGONFLIES TO YOUR GARDEN – article by the Independent Migrant Hawker image by Trevor Willis
Thursley National Nature Reserve Support Fund
The Elstead and Thursley Parish Councils have jumped to the aid of Thursley Nature Reserve by launching a GoFundMe page to help support relief work after a fire ravaged the site in May 2020. Thursley was designated a Dragonfly Hotspot by the BDS in 2019 in recognition of the site’s value both as a home…
We wave goodbye to Tom Cunningham from Morton Lochs when he retires at the end of June.
Morton Lochs, near Tayport in Fife, is one of our Dragonfly Hotspots and has thousands of visitors every year. It’s a superb place to see ten commoner dragonfly and damselfly species, plus Emperor Dragonflies and Red-veined Darters have been recorded here, which are amongst the most northerly sightings on record. It’s also a fantastic spot…
Dragonfly Hotspot Appeal: Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre
Despite the recent emergence of the first dragonflies of the year our popular Dragonfly Hotspot sites remain quiet. The recent constraints on public life, because of the Covid-19 outbreak, have resulted in the temporary closure of many nature reserves as well as restricted access to other sites. This also applies to our Dragonfly Hotspots, sites…