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Order your guide to London’s dragonflies and damselflies
…and exploring 23 species of Odonata known to be present in London. These include willow emerald damselfly, beautiful demoiselle, emperor dragonfly, and migrant hawker. The guide also highlights some of…
Dragonflies & Damselflies of Penhale Sands MOD site
An opportunity to see the newly discovered Southern Emerald Damselflies in Cornwall and to help explore & establish their range across the dune complex in this restricted access area. Moving…
RSPB Campfield Marsh Hotspot Launch Day
…Hawkers, recent arrivals in North Cumbria. The peatbog habitat is naturally the place to encounter the Common Hawker, Black Darter and Emerald Damselfly. Earlier this year, the site began the…
Top Hertfordshire Dragonfly Site Criminally Destroyed
…the whole of Hertfordshire, supporting 16 breeding species in 2020 (19 species recorded in total), including the rare Scarce Emerald Dragonfly. The site was home to an abundance of other…
Scotland Conference 2025
…Dragonflies on the Bog Jen Davidson Conservation work Genevieve Tomkins Cairngorms to Coast: the hunt for a rare dragon and damsel Emma Stevens-Veitch Playing hide & seek with Northern Emerald…
Meet the new BDS Scotland Conservation Officer
…change. These include the Azure Hawker, White-faced Darter, Northern Emerald and Northern Damselfly, although every species is just as valuable. There is a lot of worthwhile conservation work going on…
Smallford Pits update: no charges from Crown Prosecution Service
…destruction of the ponds, supported Great Crested Newts, a legally protected species. In addition, 19 species were recorded there in the summer of 2020, including the rare Scarce Emerald Damselfly….
State of Nature 2023 Report – UK nature-depleted
…change is also believed to be behind the decline in the distribution of a number of dragonflies, in particular: Common Hawker (Aeshna juncea), Black Darter (Sympetrum danae) and Emerald Damselfly…
Damselflies of the UK Part 1
…1 will take place on 02 October 24 and focus on the Demoiselle, Emerald, Red and Red-eyed species of Damselflies. Part 2 will take place on 30 October 2024 and…