Dragonfly Café at Lower Moor
Visit Dragonfly Café at Lower Moor Nature Reserve. Open Wednesdays to Sundays 10am -4pm.
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Look – a boatman! Keira’s delight in learning about unusual creatures is even more special when she can find them herself.
Emperor dragonfly
The emperor dragonfly is an impressively large and colourful dragonfly of ponds, lakes, canals and flooded gravel pits. It flies between June and August and even eats its prey on the wing.
Hairy dragonfly
The UK's smallest hawker, the Hairy dragonfly is mostly black in colour, but has a distinctively hairy thorax. It can be found in grazing marshes and flooded gravel pits, and along canals…
Golden-ringed dragonfly
A voracious predator that will even eat other dragonflies, the golden-ringed dragonfly is the UK's longest species. It can be found around acidic streams in moorland and heathland habitats.…
Dragonfly Café and Nature Centre Assistant
The Trust is looking for someone to support our amazing café team at Dragonfly Café on the Lower Moor Nature Reserve. The café has an excellent reputation and if you are a ‘people person’, love a…
Lower Moor
A mosaic of three lakes, two brooks, ponds and wetland scrapes linked together by woodland and meadows.
Slow Approach, Wild Discoveries
Poppyella Oakley, founder of The Slow Approach magazine, is a slow fashion model, creative and self-professed wildlife fan, based in Wiltshire. It was working in the café at Langford Lakes that…
Southern migrant hawker
This dazzling dragonfly, also known as the blue-eyed hawker, is a recent arrival to Britain.
Discover Wiltshire's Wildflower Wonders: Celebrating Our Magnificent Meadows
In open grassland habitats, commonly hidden by hedgerows, meadows blossom with vibrant wildflowers. These marvellous landscapes act as sanctuaries for native UK wildlife, playing a key role in…
Downy emerald
This dazzling dragonfly can be seen darting above tree-lined ponds in certain parts of Britain.
Keeled skimmer
The Keeled skimmer is a dragonfly of heaths and commons with shallow pools. It has a skittish and weak flight, and is on the wing in summer and early autumn.