Recent sightings: a focus on dragonflies

With thanks to volunteer Phil for this brilliant report about the variety of dragonfly and damselfly species we get here at Pulborough Brooks. You should all be experts by the time you've read it! ...
Recent sightings - dragonflies incoming!

Thanks to volunteer Phil for his report, photos and reflections on the new dragonfly species arriving at Pulborough Brooks... I am currently sitting at my computer sheltering from the hot weather as...
A new dragonfly hotspot

The British Dragonfly Society certainly picked a good week for 'Dragonfly Week' this year with lots of dragonflies and damselflies emerging, perching and hunting around the ponds and ditches on the reserve...
Fast and fierce – the four-spotted chaser dragonfly

Four-spotted chaser dragonfly by Graham Osborne Much of the four-spotted chaser’s life is spent hidden in the murky depths of the heathland pond. Around four weeks the after the female has laid her...
Hornet V dragonfly

Guess who won? I know hornets are pretty efficient predators of all sorts of insects (last week I saw one killing a honey bee), but never thought that they were able to take on such large things as...