Free garden packages for community groups in Wales
The Local Places for Nature project is back and here to help you create a green haven for your local community and wildlife – including dragonflies! Hundreds of free packages…
Pond Ponderings – The Bigger the Better
Pond Creation by Susan Payne We moved into our new home 2 years ago, moving from a city centre to the countryside. It is a big plot but the previous…
Pond Ponderings – A Boat for Wildlife
My Rowing Boat Pond – Sherryl Walters When we moved to the south coast just before Lockdown 1 we knew we wanted a wildlife garden with a water feature. To…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…