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An illustration of a large marsh grasshopper gripping a grass seedhead. It is a green grasshopper with wings reaching just short of the abdomen tip, and black and yellow bands on the hind legs

Hop into summer

Get to know grasshoppers with Peter G. Sutton, author of Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Allies of Great Britain and Ireland

A swallow-tailed moth resting on a bright green leaf. It's a pale yellow moth, with delicate dark lines across the wings and a long, pointed tail on each hindwing

Moths in the mail

As moths get the Royal Mail stamp of approval, we celebrate the ten special species they’ve chosen to spotlight.

Dolphins just breaching the surface of the sea

Caught in the net: ending bycatch in UK seas

Every year in UK waters, thousands of marine animals are accidentally caught and killed in fishing gear. Ruth Williams, Head of Marine Conservation, explores the crisis beneath our waves.

Phasia hemiptera on an umbellifer flower. It's a colourful orange and purplish-black fly with broad, irridescent wings

Pretty fly

From beegrabbers to comb-horns, discover five weird and wonderful flies.

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