Local BDS volunteers join Purbeck Natural History Forum members for a day of informative public engagement at the RSPB’s Arne Nature Reserve in Dorset. This outdoor event will be raising visitors’ awareness of the site’s lowland heath Odonata and highlighting the value of monitoring and conserving our freshwater habitats for these charismatic insects.

In addition, the friendly team will be sharing ID tips, revealing secrets of the Odonata life cycle and will invite Dorset-based visitors to take part in pond surveys across the wider Purbeck Heaths National Nature Reserve.

This informal, one-day event – kindly hosted by the RSPB Arne team – will be a curtain-raiser to the volunteers’ longer Dragonfly Week joint residency at RSPB Arne in July 2024.

Please note: dragonflies and damselflies prefer flying in calm, sunny conditions. This means that any engagement activity at RSPB Arne on the day – pondside or elsewhere – will be largely weather dependent. The co-organisers therefore reserve the right to postpone, change or cancel any and all scheduled activities.

Image: Four-spotted Chaser © Paul Budgen 2024.