Insects & Invertebrates

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

Fonseca's seed fly. © NHM Trustees

Insects & Invertebrates

Fly of the month – Fonseca’s seed fly

Female Aposthonia ceylonica: nymphs remain with females until they are almost adults.

First new insect order in Britain for 100 years

Composite image showing the size difference between a European honeybee work and the female Wallace's giant bee. © Clay Bolt

The world’s largest bee rediscovered by scientists

Conservationists plant elm trees for rare butterflies

Winter gnats. © Buglife

Insects & Invertebrates

Fly of the month – winter gnats

Harlequin ladybirds emerging on a sunny spring day in the UK. © Ian Redding/Getty

Insects & Invertebrates

Truth or fiction: we should be scared of harlequin ladybirds

Microsculpture is a photographic project be British photographer Levon Biss. Please email for any enquiries: contact@levonbiss.com

Microsculpture: Portraits of Insects

Papilio natewa. © Greg Kerr

New species of butterfly discovered in Fiji

Females glow-worm © Ian Redding/Getty

Insects & Invertebrates

Do street lights interfere with glow-worms?