Nursery web spider
A common spider of heathland and grassland, the Nursery web spider has brown and black stripes running the length of its body. It is an active hunter, only using its silk to create a protective…
A common spider of heathland and grassland, the Nursery web spider has brown and black stripes running the length of its body. It is an active hunter, only using its silk to create a protective…
Have you ever seen those dark red jelly blobs whilst rockpooling? These incredible creatures are beadlet anemones! They live attached to rocks all around the coast of the UK, the base of their…
Local Wildlife Sites (LWS) are havens for wild species. In this blog, we explain how they are protected.
With club-shaped leaflets on its fronds, wall-rue is easy to spot as it grows out of crevices in walls. Plant it in your garden rockery to provide cover for insects.
A new partnership with local Glamping site Home Farm Glamping will help protect wildlife in Hertfordshire and Middlesex and bring glampers closer to wildlife.
Hillingdon Council is planning to build a new Watersports Facility and Activity Centre on Broadwater Lake, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). This would be catastrophic for wildlife and…
Have you ever stopped to look at the shape of a spider web? Garden spiders spin a spiral shaped web, perfect for catching lots of juicy prey!
Once widespread, this attractive plant has declined as a result of modern agricultural practices and is now only found in four sites in South East England.
Three Peregrine Falcon chicks hatch on St Albans Cathedral watched by thousands via the live web cam.
Large scale drainage in the UK has seen a massive reduction in the range of this sensitive aquatic plant which now only occurs in around 50 sites in England.
Bladder campion is so-called for the bladder-like bulge that sites just behind the five-petalled flower - this is actually the fused sepals. Look for it on grasslands, farmland and along hedgerows…