New 5 Year Partnership with Forestry and Land Scotland
Dragonflies – including threatened and endangered species – are set to benefit from a new partnership between the British Dragonfly Society (BDS) and Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS). The five-year…
BDS Recording Scheme database passes over two million records!
Over two million records are now contained within the BDS database on NBN atlas. This amazing achievement is primarily a result of the hard work of volunteer recorders, and County…
NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording 2025
These annual NBN Awards celebrate the individuals, the newcomers and the groups of people or whole organisations that are making outstanding contributions to wildlife recording and improving our understanding of…
New Guide To Devon’s Dragonflies
Dave Smallshire, Country Dragonfly Recorder for Devon, and co-author of ‘Britain’s Dragonflies: A Field Guide to the Damselflies and Dragonflies of Great Britain and Ireland‘, has produced a new free…
BDS bids farewell to Chris Iles and welcomes new CDRs
Chris Iles, after many, many years dedicated to the role of County Dragonfly Recorder for Somerset (Vice Counties 5 and 6), is stepping down. The BDS thanks him for all…
Monmouthshire 2030 Dragonfly Atlas Project Update
Monmouthshire County Dragonfly Recorder Steve Preddy reflects on how the Monmouthshire 2030 Dragonfly Atlas Project is going now that it has reached the halfway point. The project update also provides…
Shropshire Hills Upland Dragonflies Project update
The BDS would like to thank Shropshire County Dragonfly Recorder Sue Rees Evans for her hard working setting up the Shropshire Hills Upland Dragonflies Project, as well as all those…
Book Review – Dragonfly Behavior – Discovering the Dynamic Life of an Ancient Order of Insects by Georg Ruppell and Dagmar Hilfert-Ruppell – Springer 2024
For those members of the British Dragonfly Society who were lucky enough to see and hear Georg and Dagmar speak at past members days will remember the incredible high speed…
Petition against use of pollinator-killing pesticide successful
Emergency authorisation to use Cruiser SB, a pesticide containing the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam, to treat sugar beet seeds in England, will not be granted in 2025. The use of the product…
Great Wheal Seton, Cornwall – Wildlife Habitat on the Edge
By Steve Jones Cornwall County Dragonfly Recorder The Red River Valley Local Nature Reserve near Camborne in Cornwall is a 3-mile-long wildlife corridor that has developed along the abandoned tin…