Pond Ponderings – Tiny Pond-scape
Tiny PondWatch by Jen @TinyPondWatch Hello! My name is Jen and I run @TinyPondWatch, where I share the creatures great and small that visit my tiny garden ponds on Instagram. How it came to be I am a passionate gardener, and created a wildlife-friendly garden when we bought our new build home in Shropshire five…
Pond Ponderings – Whiskey Barrel Pond
Ponds for small spaces by Jim Horsfall I created a new ‘pond’ soon after I moved into a new house in 2013, not having much space I opted for a whiskey barrel to turn into a pond (the smell of whiskey was still apparent on brining it home). I put a few bricks in the…
Emerging Emperor footage needed
Shout out to photographers and filmmakers! Humble Bee Films has contacted us looking for high-quality footage of an emerging Emperor Dragonfly. If you think you have a clip that would do the job that you wouldn’t mind donating please let us know. Image: Emperor by Dave Smallshire
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
Radstock Museum Exhibition
Lauren Kennedy, BDS Engagement Officer and Ellie Colver, BDS Conservation Officer have been busy setting up an exhibition curated by the British Dragonfly Society at the Radstock Museum in Somerset which is now open! The exhibition covers dragonflies’ ancient beginnings, their evolution, and fossils; and also the amazing ways that dragonflies have adapted for survival, their life…
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…
Meet our new Operations Officer Jess Slight
Jess is taking over the membership and administration at the BDS. Here is what she has to say about her journey to the BDS. . . “Nature and the world around us has always offered huge inspiration and joy to me. I spend as much time as I possibly can outdoors, walking and swimming. It…
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…
Calling all BDS Volunteers!
We have a request to make to all of our existing volunteers. We now have a brand new database, or CRM, in which to store all of your data that is relevant to your volunteering with the BDS. Having all of this information in one place will enable us to filter information ensuring that you only…
New Damselfly sharing habitat with UK natives
A Damselfly species that came to the UK from Europe poses a minimal risk to native Damselflies and Dragonflies, new research shows. As tens of thousands of species shift their “range” (the areas they live in) due to climate change, the Small Red-eyed Damselfly has spread northwards from the Mediterranean. It was first observed in…