You can help bring back our beetles
Beetles are an important (and exciting!) part of any healthy wildlife garden. Download your FREE guide to Bringing Back Beetles in your own garden, with instructions for building your very own …
Beetles are an important (and exciting!) part of any healthy wildlife garden. Download your FREE guide to Bringing Back Beetles in your own garden, with instructions for building your very own …
Yellow corydalis is a familiar 'weed' of gardens, walls and rocky places. It is a garden escapee in the UK, so is not a native plant. Try choosing natives for your garden to prevent…
The green sandpiper is a very rare breeding bird in the UK, and is mainly seen on migration in autumn. Look out for it feeding around marshes, flooded gravel pits and rivers. It even likes sewage…
Sand eels are a hugely important part of our marine ecosystem. In fact, the fledgling success of our breeding seabirds entirely depends on them.
Helo, Jess a Gareth ydyn ni, Swyddogion Prosiect Rhwydwaith Ecolegol Gwydn Cymru (WaREN). Yn y blog yma byddwn yn adlewyrchu ar ein hymgyrch rhywogaethau ymledol, Ymledwyr Ecosystem, yn siarad am…
The common shieldbug was once restricted to Southern England, but has since been moving northwards and is now quite widespread. It can be found in all kinds of habitats from gardens to farms.
Hi, we are Jess and Gareth, the Project Officers for the Wales Resilient Ecological Network (WaREN). In this blog we’ll be reflecting on our invasive species campaign, Ecosystem Invaders, talking…
The shrill carder bee can be spotted flying quickly around flowers in unimproved pastures. The queens produce a loud, high-pitched buzz, hence the name. It is declining rapidly and is restricted…
The oak marble gall wasp produces brown, marble-shaped growths, or 'galls', on oak twigs. Inside the gall, the larvae of the wasp feed on the host tissues, but cause little damage.
The flowers of Opposite-leaved golden saxifrage form 'trickles of gold' along riverbanks and streamsides in shady areas like wet woodlands.
A ferocious and agile predator, the green tiger beetle hunts spiders, ants and caterpillars on heaths, grasslands and sand dunes. It is one of our fastest insects and a dazzling metallic green…