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British Dragonfly Society

@BDSdragonflies

British Dragonfly Society, conserving dragonflies, damselflies & their wetland habitats since 1983. @ScotlandBds for news from Scotland Officers🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐉

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🐉Join us for our Annual Meeting!🐉 With a brilliant line up of speakers and updates from staff, we will be talking all things dragonfly! Booking is essential: loom.ly/euBBM6Q We hope to see you there! #autumnmeeting #agm #dragonflies #dragonflyconservation🐉

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Dragonfly Conservation Europe 🐉 We have joined a new collaboration founded this year with the goal of promoting odonatology and the conservation of dragonflies and their habitat through collaboration 🎉 You can download their first newsletter here: loom.ly/1yherOs


📢 Hot off the press - our 2025 Photo Competition Calendar 🎉 The calendar celebrates our top 12 images from this year's photo competition 🐉 Order your copy today: loom.ly/Ks_MF0g Add some dragonfly joy to your year or give as a gift for Christmas 🎁

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One week left to book your place at our Annual Meeting! 🐉 Join us on Sat 16th Nov at Cardiff Uni for amazing talks, updates on our work and a chance to network with fellow dragonfly and nature enthusiasts 💚 loom.ly/euBBM6Q 📸 Common Blue Damselfly - Michaela Moville

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Engagement Officer Daniele met Green MSP and new Northern Damselfly Nature Champion Lorna Slater MSP at Holyrood last week. We came up with a plan of action to help this rare insect so watch this space! #TeamDragonfly

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From Hogwarts to the Land of the Rising Sun 🐉☀️ At our annual meeting (16th Nov) Jake Dudderidge (Youth Panel) will be telling us how his study of dragonflies at University took him all the way to Japan! 🇯🇵 loom.ly/euBBM6Q 📸 Orthetrum albistylum by Jake Dudderidge

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Want to know something scary? 🎃Councils spray parks with toxic pesticides that harm our health, our pets and local wildlife 😱It's your last chance to sign the petition to ban the use of urban pesticides💚loom.ly/pO_n5sI #halloween #spookyseason #wednesdaywisdom

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We are very sorry to say that David McCulloch died recently. He was a very keen dragonfly enthusiast and was a great help to the BDS, carrying out transects at both Flanders Moss and Morton Lochs, as well as giving presentations at our conferences. He helped map the spread 1/2

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📢 One week left to apply for our Scotland Project Officer vacancy! Does working in the most amazing peatland landscape sound dreamy? Then don't forget to apply 🤩 loom.ly/P5cbAJE Closing date: 2 Nov 2024 📸 Azure Hawker larva found on surveys - Daniele Muir

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Volunteers wanted! 📢 Dragonfly recorders are needed to establish a monitoring scheme at Wildfell Centre for Environmental Recovery, Essex 🌱 Find out more: loom.ly/9vSSSy0 Image by Ryszard, flickr

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Discover the dragonflies of Andalucía 🐉🌎☀️ At our Annual Meeting (16th Nov) Ellie Colver (BDS Conservation Officer) will take us on a tour of the dragons found in this southernmost region of Spain loom.ly/euBBM6Q 📸 Yellow-veined Skimmer by Agnieszka Tanczuk

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Do you want to work to restore habitat for Scotland's rarest dragonfly species? 🐉 Take a look at our new vacancy: Scotland Project Officer 💦 Closing date: 2 Nov 2024 - loom.ly/P5cbAJE 📸 White-faced Darter by Tim Coleshaw

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📢 Booking is OPEN for the virtual International Pond Conference! 💦 Organised by #PONDERFUL and @europeanponds this free event explores ponds for biodiversity conservation and as nature-based solutions at a time of climate change. Book today ➡️ ponderful.eu/international-…

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Hey everyone! 👋🏻 I'm excited to finally to announce that I've won the British Dragonfly Society annual photo competition, Thank you so much to everyone at @BDSdragonflies and @MeganMcCubbin for choosing my image as the winner. 🏆🙏🏻 @OMSYSTEMcameras @ChrisGPackham @Greenwings

Our Photo Competition Winner is @LeeFrostsCOL Emerald Damselfly pair as chosen by the brilliant @MeganMcCubbin 📸🎉🐉 A further 11 photos chosen by the team will join our winner in our 2025 calendar: loom.ly/f6w-p_s #photography #competition #dragonfly #naturephotography

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Our Photo Competition Winner is @LeeFrostsCOL Emerald Damselfly pair as chosen by the brilliant @MeganMcCubbin 📸🎉🐉 A further 11 photos chosen by the team will join our winner in our 2025 calendar: loom.ly/f6w-p_s #photography #competition #dragonfly #naturephotography

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Local to global pressures on freshwater ecosystems: hope or despair? 🌎💦 At our Annual Meeting (16th Nov) Professor Steve Ormerod (Cardiff University and Deputy Chair of Natural Resources Wales) will be discussing pollution in our streams and rivers 🐉 loom.ly/euBBM6Q

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Join @smallshire for a webinar exploring explore the Blue and Blue-tailed species of #damselfly that can often be tricky to tell apart. @BDSdragonflies @keirondbrown #dragonflies loom.ly/BodclWo

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