Yellow edged polycera
The UK is home to so many incredible sea slugs, like this elegant nudibranch.
The UK is home to so many incredible sea slugs, like this elegant nudibranch.
If we all do our part in saving precious water supplies, we can make a huge difference for the environment.
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
From spring, look out for the beautiful, speckled gold-and-black breeding plumage of the golden plover. It can be found in its upland moorland breeding grounds from May to September, moving to…
Turn over large stones or paving slabs in the garden and you are likely to find a Red ant colony. This medium-sized ant can deliver a painful sting, so be careful! In summer, winged adults swarm…
Despite having the familiar sage-green leaves, Wood sage has very little scent, so is not a good cooking herb. It can be found on acidic soils on sand dunes, heaths and cliffs, and along woodland…
Building dens, climbing trees, mountain biking or looking for fairies, Jane and her family can spend hours getting close to nature in the woods near their home.
This wildflower meadow has always been managed traditionally with grazing by cattle or ponies from spring to autumn. This kind of rough, damp grassland is known in Wales as Rhos pasture and is…
Broad Pool is a large body of freshwater lying in a shallow basin on the limestone plateau beneath Cefn Bryn.
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts.