During 2023-2025, the BDS trained a group of young people to identify and survey dragonflies at
Stover. The results will be presented, and the opportunity will be taken to provide updates on dragonflies
in South-west England to a BDS and wider audience.

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09:30 Arrival, refreshments
10:00 Welcome and introduction (Dave Smallshire, BDS County Dragonfly Recorder for Devon)
10:05 Stover Country Park and its Dragonflies (Dave Smallshire)
10:30 Restoring Stover Park: Desilting the Lake (speaker tbc)
10:50 Monitoring the Dragonflies of Stover Lake (Dave Smallshire)
11:30 Break – refreshments
11:50 Dragonfly larvae (Jon Van Gowler, Joint Somerset CDR)
12:30 Lunch (please bring your own)
13:30 Cornwall update (Steve Jones)
13:50 South Devon update (Dave Smallshire)
14:10 North Devon (update – Andy McGeeney; South West Water and new discoveries – Liz Crow;
Lundy vs the mainland – Mandy Yates)
14:55 Break – refreshments
15:15 Somerset update (Chris Cardno/Mark Webb?)
15:35 South Peatland Restoration (Steve Edmonds)
15:55 Priority Sites in Devon: targets for 2026 (Dave Smallshire)
16:15 Final words and depart