Insects & Invertebrates

Gorse in the snow. © Getty

British wildlife in January

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People & Wildlife

20+ nature writing and popular science books on insects and invertebrates

A mountain hare hunkers down in a snow storm in The Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland. © Lyle McCalmont/Getty

British wildlife in December

Juvenile hedgehog in autumn, in Dorset. © Colin Varndell

British wildlife in November

Great fox-spider. © Mike Waite for Surrey Wildlife Trust

Extremely rare great fox-spiders rediscovered in Britain

The hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata). © Gabriel Mendes/Getty

Five blood-sucking creatures

Willoughby's leaf cutter bee and an Andrena bee species. © Lee Frost

Bug Photography Awards 2020

Common Sydney octopus showing a tentacle and suckers. © cbimages/Alamy

Insects & Invertebrates

Do octopuses ever live together?

California two-spot octopus. © Phil Garner/Alamy

Insects & Invertebrates

Why do female octopuses die after reproducing?

Painted lady butterfly stamp. © Royal Mail

New postal stamps to celebrate pollinators

Only a few of the ostracods in the amber piece could be studied using light microscopy, like this individual of the new species Myanmarcypris hui. Its antennae extend from the bivalved shell. Most other specimens lie too deep in the amber or the view is obstructed by debris particles. © He Wang and Xiangdong Zhao

100 million year old giant sperm is world’s oldest

A goldcrest perched on a bramble looking for insects. © Gary Chalker/Getty

Guide to tautonyms, triple tautonyms, and binomial nomenclature

Thistle-down velvet ant. © Joseph S. Wilson

Remarkable similarity between fluffy ant and fruit is not due to mimicry

Pelophylax nigromaculatus frog. © Shinji Sugiura

Aquatic beetle survives being swallowed alive by frogs

Dorit Bar-Zakay

How many British insects can you identify?