Great diving beetle
The Great diving beetle is a large and voracious predator of ponds and slow-moving waterways. Blackish-green in colour, it can be spotted coming to the surface to replenish the air supply it…
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Black-and-yellow longhorn beetle
This brightly-coloured beetle is often found feeding on flowers on warm days in late spring and summer.
Green tortoise beetle
When threatened, the Green tortoise beetle acts just like a tortoise, pulling its feet and antennae in and hunkering down, gripping the leaf it is on as tightly as possible. Look for it on White…
Great silver water beetle
This enormous water beetle is as rare as it is impressive.
Common red soldier beetle
The common red soldier beetle is also known as the 'bloodsucker' for its striking red appearance, but it is harmless. It is a beneficial garden insect as the adults eat aphids, and the…
Golden-bloomed grey longhorn beetle
This beautiful beetle is fond of damp meadows and woodland rides, where it's often found on umbellifers or thistles.
My coffee shop
Friends Dawn and Ann meet up every fortnight for a walk and a catch up on one of their local nature reserves.
Lovely Ladybirds
A closer look at one of the UK’s most popular beetles.
Raised bog
Unlike blanket bog, which smothers vast tracts of the uplands, raised bogs are discrete entities, often individually named, and are mostly found within agricultural landscapes in the lowlands.
What is Pride?
Our Welsh Wildlife Centre Manager, Mark Hodgson, shares his perspective on Pride at The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales...
Pride at The Wildlife Trusts
Jayke Forshaw, Out for Nature co-chair, shares his perspective on Pride.
Herb-paris
Herb-Paris has four oval leaves set in a cross, with an understated crown of yellow-green flowers rising from the middle. This makes it quite a distinctive plant of ancient and damp woodlands on…