RUTLAND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

The Dragonfly Project Wicken Fen Nature Reserve

  29th August 2010

15 Members of the society paid a visit to the Dragonfly Project based at the National Trust Wicken Fen and were met by an old friend of the society Henry Curry.

Wicken Fen was the very first Nature Reserve owned by the National Trust and has been in its care for over 100 years.

Wicken Fen is an important cog in the partnership of the British Dragonfly Society, the Dragonfly Project and the National Trust and centred on the recently refurbished Dragonfly Centre Building at Wicken.

The reserve is home to 21 breeding species of dragonfly and although at the time of their visit the weather conditions were not ideal Migrant & Southern Hawkers along with Common & Ruddy Darter were observed in some numbers.

After a dragonfly safari led by Henry Curry there was a chance to observe various larva via an electronic microscope and to examine the outer skin remnants of emerging dragonflies.

To find out more about dragonflies visit www.dragonflyproject.org.uk.

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