On the Watch for Water Bugs
Juliette Butler explains how you can learn how to identify water bugs in your garden pond, or local waterways
Juliette Butler explains how you can learn how to identify water bugs in your garden pond, or local waterways
All animals need water to survive. By providing a water source in your garden, you can invite in a whole menagerie!
As well as our own nature reserves we have also been helping improve other sites for wildlife.
Protecting these important and vulnerable sites
There are several species of spider that live in our wetlands, but the water spider is the only one that spends its life under the water. In its pond habitats, it looks silvery because of the air…
The water scorpion is not a true scorpion, but it certainly looks like one! An underwater predator, it uses its front pincer-like legs to catch its prey. Its tail actually acts as a kind of '…
Fundamentally important Local Wildlife Sites need protecting from future development - help stop government proposals to remove their protection
The large, dark grey water shrew lives mostly in wetland habitats. It's a good swimmer that hunts for aquatic insects and burrows into the banks.