'Citizen scientists' wanted for all-Ireland Dragonfly survey
The survey, Dragonfly Ireland 2019–2024, is being conducted in collaboration with the Centre for Environmental Data and Recording in Northern Ireland, and will update our knowledge of dragonfly and damselfly distributions in Ireland.
The survey enables and encourages volunteer citizen scientists to record sightings of dragonflies and damselflies, and to assess the state of the freshwater habitats they live in–helping to improve our knowledge of their distribution and to explore their use as bio-indictors of water quality and climate change.
The project wants members of the public to get involved by reporting their sightings of dragonflies and damselflies via the biodiversityireland.ie website or using the National Biodiversity Data Centre App. The project is also seeking volunteer citizen scientists to survey their local river, stream, lake or bog for Dragonflies and Damselflies, and to conduct a short assessment of habitat quality at their chosen survey site. As part of the project, a series of survey and identification workshops will be held across Ireland.
The data will be used to map the current distribution of these species across Ireland.
If you would like to participate in Dragonfly Ireland 2019–2024, further details, survey forms and other resources are available online here.
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