New website for BDS Sussex Group goes live
Visiting Sussex for your staycation this year? Living in or near Sussex? The local BDS group’s new website has launched, with much improved images and info. Congratulations to Simon and…
Between ages 12-18? Become a Junior Ranger!
Junior Rangers play an important role in looking after Protected Areas in the UK and the wildlife that lives there. By becoming a Junior Ranger you will have the opportunity…
Southern Damselfly habitat restoration in Pebblebed Heathlands
The East Devon Pebblebed Heaths support some of the last populations of Southern Damselfly in England. Volunteer Lesley Kerry has been monitoring these damselflies, and their habitat, in this lowland…
Dragonfly recorders needed! Willington Wetlands, Derbyshire
The Wildlife Trust team at Willington Wetlands, Derbyshire, are excited that they will soon be hosting a family of beavers at the nature reserve! The beavers will be released into…
Dragonflies of Durham
Find out how Dragonflies are fairing across Wildlife Trust sites in Durham; Michael Coates, Durham County Dragonfly Recorder, reports on the recording effort and and results on WT nature reserves. Overall…
Welcome to Pond Ponderings – a pond blog by gardeners of all experience levels
Here you will find regular blog posts, Pond Ponderings, about garden ponds of all types and sizes created by gardeners of all experience levels and different budgets levels too. These…
Smallford Pits update: no charges from Crown Prosecution Service
Last month, staff and volunteers at the BDS were outraged to learn about the apparent deliberate poisoning of ponds at one of Hertfordshire’s top dragonfly sites: Smallford Pits (read here). This…
County Dragonfly Recorder Reports 2020
British Dragonfly Society County Dragonfly Recorder Reports for 2020 are now available. Download them here to review the highlights of the 2020 dragonfly season in your County.
Meet Cephalozygoptera! The newly described, and sadly extinct, Odonata suborder
Researchers from Simon Fraser University, Canada, announced the classification of a new suborder of extinct Odonata after conducting an extensive review of fossil specimens and scientific papers dating back as…
Dragonfly-inspired nanotechnology in the fight against disease
After almost a year of dousing ourselves in hand sanitiser we are all well aware of the importance of disinfectants in the fight to control the spread of COVID-19. However,…