The large white is a common garden visitor - look out for its brilliant white wings, tipped with black.

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…

These colourful little fish are a delight for snorkellers or shallow water divers to photograph, rarely being scared off by their presence!

Famed for its tapping in the middle of the night, supposedly heralding tragedy, the Deathwatch beetle is a serious wood-boring pest. In houses, their tunnelling can cause major damage.

This shiny beetle is common in wooded areas throughout the UK. As the name suggests, it specialises in hunting snails.

Piddocks are a boring bivalve. No, we don't mean dull... we mean that it bores into soft rock, creating a burrow. In fact, they're the opposite of dull - they glow in the dark!