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A plastic bottle with the top cut off, filled with grass and water, sticks poking out.

Homemade Hoverfly Lagoons

With the latest Wild About Gardens focus on hoverflies, Danielle Page talks us through how to create one particular habitat to tempt more of these incredible insects into your garden.

Three flying ants flying low above the grass

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…

7-spot Ladybird

Lovely ladybirds

A closer look at one of the UK’s most popular beetles.

Harvest mouse

Mice to meet you!

Mammal expert Stuart Edmunds introduces the four species of mice you can see in the UK.

Sphagnum moss

National Moss Day (21st October 2023)

This post to celebrate national moss day was written by Rachel Carter, British Bryological Society Regional Recorder for Northamptonshire. Rachel also volunteers for the Trust and is a member of…

Swans in flight

UK Power Networks

A special winter visitor has recently been given a helping hand by our corporate investor UK Power Networks.

Badger prints in mud the wildlife trusts

Mammal mysteries

Have you spotted any mysterious tracks or unexplained droppings? Solve the case with some tips from Darren Tansley, the Mammal Detective.

Drinker moth caterpillar

Survival strategies

Discover the different ways that moths and butterflies spend the winter.

Grey heron and great white egret stepping out together

Harry's Hog Blog - Out of hibernation...

Our intrepid promoter Harry Hog is now officially out and about visiting Wildlife Trust nature reserves in our three counties. Read the first of his ‘Hog Blog’s about how our local wildlife is…

30 Days Wild as a family

Getting wilder by the year

Discover how our 30 Days Wild challenge can breathe new life into your relationship with nature.

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