Meanwhile, a national survey is helping to plot dragonflies and damselflies on the map.
Everything seemed huge--the century-old trees above and the butterflies and amazing dragonflies that hovered and nosedived around me.
In the ponds and flooded areas, they're hoping for frogs, toads, newts, aquatic plants, damsel flies and dragonflies.
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It has organised a dragonflies walk at the Brecon national park visitor centre at Libanus, on 17 June, 1800 BST.
Delicate carvings of dragonflies flitting in wheat fields, for example, sit atop a forged iron helmet, the whole made around 1730 by an expert armorer.
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Covering more than 6, 000sqm, the garden is awash in ferns, wildflowers and bushy undergrowth, while a tranquil pond is home to wildlife such as frogs, newts and dragonflies.
Nick Hazlitt, a forester with the Forestry Commission, said they were also hoping to promote wildlife on the site, which is important for ground-nesting birds, dragonflies and damselflies.
It's the same trick used by dragonflies catching flies.
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This year the dragonflies helped the 25-year-old Mr. Sukrit win the coveted "most popular actor" award at entertainment magazine Siam Dara and have flooded Thailand's show-business chat-rooms with tributes to his talents.
In the palm groves below the village of Tamalokt is a cistern, a place of utter peace, where scarlet dragonflies skid above the water and the tops of olive trees sway against cerulean sky.
As my eyes adjusted, I realized that this seemingly solid carpet of green was actually a large, dense grouping of water hyacinth, throbbing with electric blue and crimson dragonflies, spindly mottled spiders and monstrous ants.
And I learned to love Indonesia while flying kites and running along the paddy fields and catching dragonflies, buying satay and baso from the street vendors. (Applause.) I still remember the call of the vendors.
The authenticity of this green belt, designed by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations and Dutch horticulturalist Piet Udolf, is confirmed by the presence of bees, dragonflies and even crickets, whose cheerful chatter can often be heard on summer evenings.
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