About the event

As the last dragon and damselflies of the year are disappearing from our autumnal Shropshire skies join Sue Rees Evans for an introduction to this fascinating and ancient group of insects. We will follow their highly successful life cycle from egg to aerial acrobat illustrating this journey with a host of Shropshire species. In so doing we discover that beneath the relatively inactive surface waters of our ponds, the next generation of these fabulous fliers lies in wait…

Sue Rees Evans is the Shropshire County recorder for Dragonflies and the Odonata Tsar for the Shropshire Ecological Data Network. Sue has also written and manages the Shropshire Dragonflies website which serves as an online atlas and hosts the Shropshire Dragonfly Watch flight season blog. With a real enthusiasm for hands on teaching, Sue has taught numerous courses on Dragonfly and Damselfly identification over the last 11 years for the FSC, various Wildlife Trusts, the National Trust and numerous projects such as Biolinks, Invertebrate Challenge and Cold-blooded and Spineless.

Fairtrade refreshments available.