Dragonflies of the Black Forest

As part of this project, freely accessible lakes, ponds, pools and other places where dragonflies live are checked and the species found there are recorded. The findings are fed into the database of the Baden-Württemberg Dragonfly Conservation Association in order to document the distribution of the individual species.

Sites for which older reports are available should also be checked to see whether the species found are still present there.

The individual species will be portrayed here with photographs in different situations, later possibly on a separate website.

I can also imagine creating an exhibition or an illustrated book from the photographs at the end.

Currently, 81 dragonfly species are regularly observed in Germany. Some of them are more common, others are rare or even endangered in their habitats.

While an analysis of an observation database revealed that 58 species were found in the Black Forest, Sternberg and Buchwald list 48 species in their work "Die Libellen Baden-Württembergs".

I have currently found the following species:

Some of these species are regularly found at the respective sites, others are not regularly or even only occasionally found there. It also happens that species that are not normally found in the Black Forest can be observed there. For example, I have already observed the fire dragonfly, the forked damselfly and the large moss dragonfly in the Black Forest. These species have been observed less than 10 times in the Black Forest.

I've created profiles of the dragonflies I found.

1. Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra, Libellen Europas - Der Bestimmungsführer, Haupt-Verlag Bern, 2021, 2. Auflage,  ISBN 978-3-258-08219-6
2. Klaus Sternberg / Rainer Buchwald, Die Libellen Baden-Württembergs, Band 1, Verlag Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co. KG, 1999, ISBN 3-8001-3508-6
3. Klaus Sternberg / Rainer Buchwald, Die Libellen Baden-Württembergs, Band 2, Verlag Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co. KG, 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3514-0
4. Hansruedi Wildermuth / Andreas Martens, Die Libellen Europas, Quelle & Meyer, 2019, ISBN 978-3-494-01690-0
5. Arne W. Lehmann / J. Hendrik Nüß, Libellen, Deutscher Jugendbund für Naturbeobachtung, 6. Auflage 2015
6. Dirk Pape-Lange, Libellen-Handbuch, Selbstverlag
7. Libellula Supplement 14, Atlas der Libellen Deutschlands, Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft deutschsprachiger Odonatologen (GdO) e.V., ISSN 0723-6514

All these books are in german.

There are some organisations in Germany, that deal with dragonflies:

1. Gesellschaft deutschsprachiger Odonatologen e. V. (GdO)
2. Schutzgemeinschaft Libellen in Baden-Württemberg e.V.
3. British Dragonfly Society

There are several sites on the Internet that deal with dragonflies and can be used for identification:

• https://www.libellenschutz.ch
• httop://www.libellenwissen.de
• https://www.libellen.tv
• https://www.waldschrat-online.de/

All of them are in german.