The results of Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count 2025 are in, revealing the long-term forecast for the survival of many of our much-loved summer insects is still gloomy. The sunniest spring

Peek over the parapet of a bridge just as daylight bleeds into dusk, gazing down through the clear layers of a shallow river or chalk stream, and you may glimpse the shadowy, serpentine form of an eel

On a mild autumn day I might catch a red admiral butterfly taking the last of summer’s nectar, basking in sunshine or flying among the rooftops against a brilliant blue sky. I keep a mental log of my

30-minute birder Amanda Tuke sees the benefits of being distracted by birds at home, and on the coast

I started talking to dragonflies in India at a place where my husband and I stayed several times in the foothills of the Himalayas. I noticed that dragonflies came and settled in the sunshine on the p

No self-professed bird-lover should ever tire of ‘vismigging’, or watching avian migrations in action. This biannual event occurs when huge numbers of migratory birds follow established flyways to the