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Insects

November 2026

  • short-necked oil beetl

    Rare beetle that oozes substance from its knees when attacked rediscovered in Wales

    Natural Resources Wales says short-necked oil beetle has been found in country for first time in nearly 60 years

October 2026

  • KindnessReduxpixie

    First Dog on the Moon
    How many of these official Tiny Creature Kindness badges have you earned?

  • An golden and black spotted butterfly rests on a spiky purple flower

    Butterflywatch
    Queen of Spain butterfly invades Britain – but will it become native?

  • Les, a beekeeper, closes his eyes while thick clusters of honeybees cover his shoulders and arms

    My best shot
    The bare-handed beekeeper who looks like something out of The Odyssey: Holly Lynton’s best photograph

  • moth-map-thumb

    The Crunch
    The great moth revival: how bogongs have bounced back

  • ‘This isn’t greenwashing’: thousands of butterflies surprise experts on restored West Sussex farmland

  • The pest I’ll never forget
    The pest I’ll never forget: the maggots that rained down like hail

  • ‘Crucial opportunity to act’ as study finds most of Europe’s wild bee species in decline

  • The age of extinction
    Honeybees are barging aside wild pollinators in hunt for pollen and nectar, study finds

  • Australian climate and environmental reporting
    Cloudy with a chance of moths: bogong swarms are bamboozling weather radars across NSW

  • From black soldier flies to mealworms: farming insects for food, fodder and fertiliser in Uganda

  • Euro visions
    Is the modern economic system broken? These urban beekeepers think so – and this is their solution

  • Pollinating insects flock to plants gardeners might think of as ‘weeds’

  • ‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoes

  • The Guardian picture essay
    As monarch butterflies migrate for the fall, meet the Chicago woman trying to protect them

  • Specieswatch
    Beautiful butterflies get more attention from the public – and from scientists

  • Country diary
    Country diary: A gleaming beetle that could be bad news for my garden favourites

  • The pest I’ll never forget
    The pest I’ll never forget: the cockroaches I still dream about

  • ‘The future is bright’: breeding programme brings world’s heaviest insect back from the brink

September 2026

  • Two chimpanzees sit close together on the forest floor in Kibale National Park, Uganda

    Insects play critical role in ecosystems beyond just providing food, new research shows

    Insects provide protection, sanitation and even shelter to vertebrates, making them a priority for conservation efforts
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