Beautiful demoiselle
Beautiful demoiselles are, well, beautiful! Often confused for a dragonfly, these giants of the damselfly world are hard to miss with their metallic blue and green colours.
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Nene Wetlands Wild Fridays - Beautiful Butterflies
Learn all about butterflies and build a wooden butterfly house!
Beautiful Butterflies at Summer Leys
Join us at Summer Leys to build a butterfly box that you can take home with you, and to join us for the Big Butterfly Count
News & Blogs
Read all the latest Wildlife Trust BCN news and blogs
Pop Up Shop Success
The Trust's Pop up Shop in Peterborough proved a great success - and may return before too long . . .
Rare Species Guardians
This year a new project has been gathering pace in Bedfordshire, the Rare Species Guardians. The project aims to monitor and protect the rarest fauna and flora across the whole of Bedfordshire.…
Red-tailed mason bee
Also known as the two-coloured mason bee, this beautiful bee is famous for nesting in old snail shells.
Rare Species Guardians Project
Read about the Rare Species Guardians project, which has been running in partnership with Bedfordshire Natural History Society and The Greensand Trust
Rare moth spotted at Pitsford Water
A rare blue underwing makes an appearance.
Rare find in Northamptonshire
Last year at Nene Wetlands a dwarf mouse-ear, thought to be extinct, was discovered - but almost lost again . . .
Rare Species Guardians
A collaborative project with volunteers helping to monitor and protect Bedfordshire’s rarest plant species at sites across the county.
Bee orchid
The bee orchid is a sneaky mimic - the flower’s velvety lip looks like a female bee. Males fly in to try to mate with it and end up pollinating the flower. Sadly, the right bee species doesn’t…