Creating Pools for Odonata: Azure Hawker on Corrour Estate
Area Co-ordinator for the Cairngorms Stephen Corcoran is leading a field trip to Corrour Estate in the Highlands as part of the IUCN Peatlands Conference. They will be looking at the new Azure Hawker pools that were put in last year and have been a great success.
BDS Northern Dragonfly Pond Project at CIEEM AWARDS
The BDS Northern Dragonfly Pond Project was recently nominated for the CIEEM Small Project Award, which celebrates the achievements of small projects in the ecology and environmental management sector. While our project did not win it was Highly Commended. You can find the award lists here.
Meet the new BDS Scotland Conservation Officer
Jennifer Davidson has joined the BDS as a new full time BDS Scotland Conservation Officer and will be taking over from Andrea Hudspeth who will sadly be leaving us shortly. Jen introduces herself. . . “I have enjoyed over 20 years working in conservation, mainly as a Countryside Ranger in Fife, Tayside and Stirlingshire areas.…
Willow Emerald Watch 2023 update
The BDS has been tracking the range expansion of Willow Emerald Damselfly since it colonised England in 2009. Learn more on the Willow Emerald Watch Project page. Project lead, Adrian Parr, provides an update from the 2023 recording season. . . Willow Emeralds had another relatively good season in 2023, and it was pleasing to…
Volunteers needed in Shropshire Hills
If you live near the Shropshire Hills join the Stepping Stones Project volunteer team! We need volunteers to assist in locating dragonfly habitat, monitoring local populations, and assisting in habitat management. The Stepping Stones is a landscape-scale nature conservation project aimed at restoring the natural habitats of the Shropshire Hills. Watch this introductory video to…
Read the White-legged Damselfly Investigation final report
The final report on the White-legged Damselfly Investigation citizen science project is now available to download here. From 2018 to 2022 over 700 volunteers assisted the BDS in mapping the distribution of the White-legged Damselfly (Platycnemis pennipes) across England and Wales with the aim of assessing changes in the species’ occupancy (geographic area within which…
Forestry and Land Scotland and BDS pond building partnership
The BDS and Forestry and Land Scotland have teamed up in a new project to creat new habitat for Northern Damselfly, Azure Hawker and Northern Emerald – three species which are only found in Scotland in the UK. Read the full press release here. Image: Northern Emerald by Dave Ashton
Willow Emerald Watch 2022 Results
The BDS has been tracking the spread of the Willow Emerald Damselfly across England since 2015. You can help by keeping an eye out for adults in late summer-autumn, as well as their egg laying scars in the bark on bankside trees; learn how to take part here. Adrian Parr, project manager, summaries the results…
Call out to recorders in Monmouthshire – join the atlas project
The Monmouthshire 2030 dragonfly atlas project was set up in 2020 by the British Dragonfly Society, with the aim of producing Monmouthshire’s first dragonfly atlas in 2030. We hope that together we can cover every part of the county and record the dragonflies present, and from these records produce a comprehensive and detailed set of…