Every year over the last full week of June, the Royal Society of Entomology organise National Insect Week, an event to celebrate insects and all the important things they do for us and the planet…

You might be aware that pollinators are vital to our diet and their own respective ecosystem, and that beetles are strange and beautiful - but you might not know that many beetles are indeed…

What does it mean to be a fly? True flies are a group of insects, which are characterized by their two wings. That gives them the name Diptera from the Greek “di” (two) and “Pteron” meaning wing…

On a warm, still summer’s evening, the My Wild City team met with residents to go in search of these elusive luminescent creatures. Find out more about how we got on and how you can look for glow-…

Did you know that 41% of insect species face extinction? The loss of their habitats and overuse of pesticides are two major reasons why these little creatures are dying out eight times faster than…

Pesticide use affects us all. These chemicals have a detrimental effect on the insect population, leading to adverse consequences for our wildlife and environment as a whole. We have a chance to…

Every autumn, headlines warn about spiders invading our homes. But what’s the real story with our eight-legged neighbours?

The droning hum of a mosquito disturbing you on a summer’s evening as you try to sleep; the angry buzzing of a wasp as it lands on your jam; the line of ants steadily marching over your sugary…

If you happen to find yourself in a woodland on a late summer day with striped sunlight in the glades, then you may be lucky enough to spot our largest native wasp species, the hornet.