Emperor dragonfly
The emperor dragonfly is an impressively large and colourful dragonfly of ponds, lakes, canals and flooded gravel pits. It flies between June and August and even eats its prey on the wing.
The emperor dragonfly is an impressively large and colourful dragonfly of ponds, lakes, canals and flooded gravel pits. It flies between June and August and even eats its prey on the wing.
The UK's smallest hawker, the Hairy dragonfly is mostly black in colour, but has a distinctively hairy thorax. It can be found in grazing marshes and flooded gravel pits, and along canals…
A voracious predator that will even eat other dragonflies, the golden-ringed dragonfly is the UK's longest species. It can be found around acidic streams in moorland and heathland habitats.…
As well as our own nature reserves we have also been helping improve other sites for wildlife.
Protecting these important and vulnerable sites
Fundamentally important Local Wildlife Sites need protecting from future development - help stop government proposals to remove their protection
Three new County Wildlife Sites have been designated at Blow's Downs in areas of superb land restoration in a mitigation scheme for the Luton Dunstable Busway
Thanks to you, the Government has published a revised version of its National Planning Policy Framework which now includes some reinstated protection for Local Wildlife Sites
A beginner's guide to learn more about the ecology, biology and how to identify dragonflies