Insects & Invertebrates

A female (left) and a male (right) bobbing on the surface of a pond.

Insects & Invertebrates

Fly of the month – the semaphore fly

A male Stratiomys chameleon. © Peter Andrews

Insects & Invertebrates

Fly of the Month – Clubbed general soldierfly

Small tortoiseshell butterfly on ivy flowers. © Estuary Pig/Getty

Wildlife Gardening

Top plants for pollinators in your wildlife garden

Native oyster. © ZSL

Conserving native oysters in the Thames Estuary

Chequered skipper. © Andrew Cooper

Rare butterfly flies again in England

Olea hensoni. © Florida Museum, photo taken by Gustav Paulay

Sea slug species named after The Muppets creator

Beepot

CLOSED - Win a Beepot planter

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

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