Sightings of one of the UK's rarest insects have tripled. The green forest hoverfly, distinctive for its metallic green and golden body and bright orange wings and legs, has increased in numbers that ...

In a corner of Hertfordshire, in one of the oldest agricultural research institutes in the world – the Rothamsted Research Institute, founded in 1843 – entomologist Chris Shortall spends his days ...

The health of the UK's insect populations is to be assessed by a new project, which aims to advise on policies to help protect them more effectively post-Brexit. There are growing concerns that ...

Sun, Mar 8, 2026 They hide in our homes all winter, but now these little insects are waking up in homes across the UK and are ready to cause chaos if left unchecked. While certain insects and ...

Every year in the skies above the United Kingdom, there is a vast migration that very few know about, and for the first time, researchers have been able to track it. A throng of high altitude flying ...

Non-native plants are providing new homes for Britain's insects - some of which are rare on native plants, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of York discovered that foreign plants - ...

New evidence suggests there is some truth to anecdotes about today’s car windscreens being covered in fewer dead insects than in the past. A UK citizen science survey has found the number of flying ...