Nadia Shaikh goes synaesthetic for the start of spring, almost tasting the orange tang of an early butterfly

Find out which early species to watch for, how to make your patch more butterfly-friendly and where to record your sightings for science

March is a month of change for Nature, says James Lowen…

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On a journey through the Pantanal in Brazil, Kate Eshelby questions what will happen to the wider world if we don’t learn to take conservation seriously

Handsome, chunky and often brightly marked, shieldbugs emerge in spring, quietly shaping the life of hedgerow and garden