Eight legged wonders!
Ask any child – and most adults, come to that – to draw a spider in its home, and you’ll get a circular or polygonal web. Those orb-web spiders may well be the most obvious kind around our houses…
Ask any child – and most adults, come to that – to draw a spider in its home, and you’ll get a circular or polygonal web. Those orb-web spiders may well be the most obvious kind around our houses…
This distinctive lark is a passage migrant and winter visitor to the UK, most often found along the east coast of Britain.
The carnivorous lifestyle of the round-leaved sundew makes this heathland plant a fascinating species. The round leaves have sticky, 'dew'-covered tendrils that tempt in unsuspecting…
The Prince of Wales, Patron of The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC), has unveiled a nationwide network of 70 Ancient Woodlands and 70 Ancient Trees dedicated to Her Majesty, in celebration of the…
This streaky brown bird is a summer visitor to Britain, favouring open woodlands in the north and west.
This dainty white butterfly is now only found in a few parts of Britain, where it flutters slowly through woodland clearings.
This dazzling dragonfly can be seen darting above tree-lined ponds in certain parts of Britain.
Considered Britain's most threatened butterfly, the high brown fritillary can be only be found in a few areas of England and Wales.
We have launched a fundraising appeal to create a new nature reserve within Wales’ biodiversity equivalent of the Amazon rainforest - the Gwent Levels.
This bumpy shell lives up to its name and lives partly buried in the seabed along the west coast of Great Britain.