Action for Insects
INSECT APOCALYPSE - WILL YOU TAKE ACTION FOR INSECTS PLEDGE?
Insects are dying out up to 8 times faster than larger animals and globally 41% of insect species face extinction. Insects…
INSECT APOCALYPSE - WILL YOU TAKE ACTION FOR INSECTS PLEDGE?
Insects are dying out up to 8 times faster than larger animals and globally 41% of insect species face extinction. Insects…
The water stick insect looks just like a mantis. An underwater predator, it uses its front legs to catch its prey. Its tail acts as a kind of 'snorkel', so it can breathe in the water.…
Unlike many of its relatives, this shimmering shieldbug is a predator, feasting on caterpillars and a variety of other insects.
One of our largest soldier beetles, often found on flowers where they hunt other insects.
The yellow flower heads of common ragwort are highly attractive to bees and other insects, including the cinnabar moth.
The nodding, blue bells of the harebell are a summer delight of grasslands, sand dunes, hedgerows and cliffs. They are attractive to all kinds of insects, too.
The Welsh poppy is a plant of damp and shady places, roadsides and hillsides. It is also a garden escapee. It flowers over summer, attracting nectar-loving insects.
Look for the small, white, star-shaped flowers of Common chickweed all year-round. Sometimes considered a 'weed', it is still a valuable food source for insects.
According to a recent UN report, based on thousands of studies of land, sea and freshwater life, a million species of plants, insects, birds and animals are threatened with extinction in the next…
Fat hen is a persistent 'weed' of fields and gardens, verges and hedgerows. But, like many of our weed species, it is a good food source for birds and insects.
Greater celandine is a very common plant that spreads easily in the garden, on waste ground and in hedgerows. It is considered a weed, but the small, yellow flowers provide nectar for insects.