Insects & Invertebrates

Beepot

Win a Beepot planter in our new competition

Hummingbird hawk moth. © Steve Maskell/Butterfly Conservation.

Moths have a bad reputation despite ecological importance

White-tailed bumblebee. © Pieter Haringsma

Bumblebees suffered in the extreme weather of 2018

Campsicnemus magius. © Peter Harvey/Buglife

Insects & Invertebrates

Fly of the month – the fancy-legged fly

Add the tubes. © Sarah Cuttle

Help your local solitary bees and make a bee hotel

Blue-tailed damselfly. © Mauvries/Getty

Scottish damselflies should choose their friends wisely

Achrioptera maroloko, one of two newly discovered colourful Madagascan species. Maroloko means "colorful" in the Madagasy language. © Dr Frank Glaw.

Two new flamboyant stick insect species discovered

Tachina ursina. © Nick Baldwin

Insects & Invertebrates

Fly of the Month – Tachina ursina

Large blue butterfly. © Gary Chalker/Getty

Butterflies bounce back in summer heatwave

Red-shanked bumblebee Bombus ruderarius. © Steven Falk

Widespread losses of pollinators in Britain

Female Bombylius major in Regent's Park, London. © Steven Falk

Insects & Invertebrates

Fly of the month – bee-flies

Jellyfish. © Wendy Northway

Jellyfish are more beneficial to marine life than we realised

Yellow cellar slug. © Emma Griffith/RHS

Gardeners asked to help on springtime slug hunt

High brown fritillary butterfly. © Iain Leach/Butterfly Conservation

Conserving the UK’s most threatened butterfly