Insect Week returns in 2022
Ladybird Hustle
South West...
Insects and the scientists that study them will be at the NEC, Birmingham from 15th to 18th March.
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South West
Visit The Butterfly Farm and Otter Sanctuary at Buckfastleigh to find...
The winners of the prestigious National Insect Week Photography Competition have been announced by the Royal Entomological Society. All the winning and commended images can viewed in our...
A big thank you to everyone that joined in on Twitter during National Insect Week 2016.
Winning schools announced
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Author Richard 'Bugman' Jones tells us how his dinner-party behaviour inspired his new book 'House Guests, House Pests'.
Celebrating its centenary in 2014, the Panama Canal is regarded as a wonder of the modern world. Billions of pounds of shipping commerce pass through the jungle-flanked 80 km waterway each year, but it was almost never completed. Its construction faced a huge barrier, but this wasn’t the...
There are lots of contenders here – possibly the pretty red and blue rove beetle Paederus – very, very tiny amounts of its poison have been used to cure chronic ulceration in people. Ladybirds are pretty poisonous (and pretty) and can bleed foul-tasting poisonous brightly coloured blood from their knees.
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