Blog: wildlife

Blog

An illustration of a large marsh grasshopper gripping a grass seedhead. It is a green grasshopper with wings reaching just short of the abdomen tip, and black and yellow bands on the hind legs

Hop into summer

Get to know grasshoppers with Peter G. Sutton, author of Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Allies of Great Britain and Ireland

Phasia hemiptera on an umbellifer flower. It's a colourful orange and purplish-black fly with broad, irridescent wings

Pretty fly

From beegrabbers to comb-horns, discover five weird and wonderful flies.

A pond skater floating on the water's surface, its long legs spread out to either side

Pond patrol

Discover some of the special species living in a garden pond, with entomologist Ben Keywood.

A common sexton beetle, black with orange bands across its back, climbs a plant stem

Nature's undertakers

Discover the brilliance of burying beetles with Dr Ellie Bladon, an evolutionary ecologist based in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

Tags

See all blog posts