This streaky brown bird is a summer visitor to Britain, favouring open woodlands in the north and west.

Also known as the two-coloured mason bee, this beautiful bee is famous for nesting in old snail shells.

The common carder bee is a fluffy, gingery bumble bee that can often be found in gardens and woods, and on farmland and heaths. It is a social bee, nesting in cavities, old birds' nests and…

This dazzling dragonfly can be seen darting above tree-lined ponds in certain parts of Britain.

The broad-bordered bee hawk-moth does, indeed, look like a bee! A scarce moth, mainly of Central and Southern England, it feeds on the wing and can be seen during spring and summer.

The appearance of semi-circular holes in the leaves of your garden plants is a sure sign that the patchwork leaf-cutter bee has been at work. It is one of a number of leaf-cutter bee species…

The Tawny mining bee is a furry, gingery bee that can often be seen in parks and gardens during the springtime. Look for a volcano-like mound of earth in the lawn that marks the entrance to its…

This distinctive lark is a passage migrant and winter visitor to the UK, most often found along the east coast of Britain.

This black and grey solitary bee takes to the wing in spring, when it can be seen buzzing around burrows in open ground.

This bumpy shell lives up to its name and lives partly buried in the seabed along the west coast of Great Britain.

This well-camouflaged woodpecker used to be a common breeding bird in Britain, but is now only likely to be seen passing through on migration.