{"id":1295,"date":"2021-09-10T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/blog\/state-of-dragonflies-2021\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T14:12:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:12:17","slug":"state-of-dragonflies-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/fr\/blog\/state-of-dragonflies-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Dragonflies 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&rsquo;t help myself &#8211; I felt this brilliant piece of work on the state of Dragonflies was worth sharing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I spend a lot of time talking to people about the seeming increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/2021\/05\/21\/spotted-cranefly-spotted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cranefly populations<\/a> that we are seeing. This document does a great job at looking at how some insects are really benefiting at the moment from the milder climate, increased habitat creation work that takes place.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This document does a far better job of communicating the challeneges that insects face and nuances of why some species thrive and other will struggle.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/british-dragonflies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/State-of-Dragonflies-2021-final-moderate.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find the full document here &#8230; ><\/a><\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I you&rsquo;re interested in this subject I fully recommend you take the time out to read it, It&rsquo;s much easier to digest when youre reading about the subject of increased insects when its associated with a positive outcome too.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>You&rsquo;ll need to read through it to get the full picture but there are strong correlations with Climate conditions and additional habitat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I also couldn&rsquo;t help noting the similarities between the species richness map for the dragon fly over recent years and the significant damage map from our leatherjacket survey. <a href=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/2021\/01\/16\/leatherjacket-damage-how-much-and-where\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Which can be found here&#8230;&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6159\"\/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6161\"\/><figcaption>Golf courses reporting significant loss of turf from LeatherJacket damage<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Stat<strong><em>e of Dragonflies in Britain and Ireland 2021. British Dragonfly Society, Old Weston, Huntingdon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Taylor, P., Smallshire, D., Parr, A.J., Brooks, S.J., Cham, S.A., Colver, E.F., Harvey, M., Hepper, D., Isaac, N.J.B., Logie, M.W., McFerran, D., McKenna, F., Nelson, B. &#038; Roy, D.B. 2021.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\r\nhttps:\/\/british-dragonflies.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/State-of-Dragonflies-2021-final-moderate.pdf\r\n<\/div><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/british-dragonflies.org.uk\/recording\/state-of-dragonflies-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/british-dragonflies.org.uk\/recording\/state-of-dragonflies-2021\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&rsquo;t help myself &#8211; I felt this brilliant piece of work on the state of Dragonflies was worth sharing. I spend a lot of time talking to people about the seeming increase in Cranefly populations that we are seeing. This document does a great job at looking at how some insects are really benefiting\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}