Pretty fly for a striped guy
From beegrabbers to comb-horns, discover five weird and wonderful flies!
Blog: Insects
Tom Marshall
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Pond patrol
Discover some of the special species living in a garden pond, with entomologist Ben Keywood.
"It was like Antiques Roadshow in the river" - how an outfall safari uncovered mysterious finds at Guphill Brook in Coventry
Join our Sherbourne Valley Team for an aquatic adventure! Written by Sophia Bellion
Footballers, batmen and heroes
Celebrate hoverflies with insect expert Vicki Hird
Fascinating flying ants
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…
Lovely ladybirds
A closer look at one of the UK’s most popular beetles.
Long legs, short lives
Insect expert Ben Keywood from Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust takes a closer look at craneflies.
My Garden Wildlife Blog by Amy, aged 9
My family has a small terraced garden in Warwickshire, From March to September I spent a lot of time in my back garden due to the COVID 19 pandemic and I started to notice that there were lots of…
Catching a ride on an Uber beetle
Readers of last week's blog will know that the first time I put the moth trap out this year resulted in few moths, but did give me the excuse to look in more detail at the humble May Bug.…
Bumping into May Bugs
One animal that definitely won’t be keeping to any social distancing policy and you are very likely to bump into (literally) at this time of the year is the may bug or cockchafer.