Many of us supported wild plants and pollinators this summer by letting our lawns grow instead of mowing.

Sara Booth-Card, ecologist, peatlands and Action For Insects campaigner at The Wildlife Trusts, looks out for the telltale signs of flying ant days and shares her love for the underground world of…

July finds me heading for the riverbank. My husband enjoys fishing, and now the closed season is over, he’s keen to spend some time on the river. I don’t fish myself but the quiet times sitting…

Discover some of the predators stalking through your garden’s grassland.

September is a great time to go out in search of late odanata: the group of insects that is made up of dragonflies and damselflies. Often a misunderstood (and feared) group of insects, odonata are…

How many species of butterfly can you spot this July?

July is really a month for insects – butterflies and moths, dragonflies and damselflies. I’m thrilled to have seen a large skipper butterfly in my garden for the first time, and a meadow…

I have been obsessed by insects for all of my life; they are amazing, often beautiful, and with fascinating, peculiar lives.

The Bilberry bumblebee is particularly attractive, with bright yellow bands on the thorax and a rich orange-red tail covering around two-thirds of the abdomen. Depending on the season, queens…

With summer quickly heading towards Autumn the nights are starting to draw in and many of our borders are beginning to flag after flowering all summer. However, we still need to give wildlife a…