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Insects

  • Flower margins around the crops are home to ladybirds, which feed on the aphids.

    Country diary
    Country diary: Ladybirds and wasps are the unsung heroes of the farm

    Brigg, Lincolnshire: With harvest approaching, we’re putting the glorious long evenings to good use, and both humans and insects are working hard to protect the crops
  • A red handfish among coral

    Blue mushrooms, shy trees and glowing seas: Beaker Street science photography prize – in pictures

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  • cattle on a farm

    US confirms three new cases of flesh-eating screwworm in livestock

  • A man looks at a computer screen displaying information about the new world screwworm.

    Second flesh-eating screwworm infection reported in cattle in Texas

  • The Haybob 300 with the service hole in the cap used by the blue tits.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A plough, a haybale – who would live in a house like this?

  • A painted lady butterfly on a purple buddleia

    Get set for a painted lady summer: big year for orange butterflies in Britain

    Migrant insects have been seen in large numbers along east coast thanks to heatwave and benign southerly winds
  • Cockroaches

    More than 100,000 cockroaches worth $200,000 seized from NSW breeder in record-breaking bust

    The invertebrates were likely destined for the pet trade, including as reptile food
  • A tawny owlet in a beech tree.

    Country diary
    Country diary: The ‘queen of trees’ is holding a secret

    Eggesford Forest, Devon: I thought I was alone in admiring a towering beech in the chilly wood, but I was not
  • A bumblebee approaches poppy flowers

    ‘They surprise me every time’: bees can use tools to solve problems, study finds

  • Paul McCartney’s album The Boys of Dungeon Lane.

    Paul McCartney’s inspiration – and what’s been lost to the boys of Dungeon Lane

  • fly larvae

    Alarm as once-eradicated flesh-eating parasite found in calf in Texas

  • A beautiful demoiselle damselfly.

    Country diary
    Country diary: A close-up view of a shimmering beauty

  • Multiple mosquitoes rest on the inside of a clear plastic container

    Debugging: Google requests permission to release 32m mosquitoes in California and Florida

  • Split image: left shows an orange and black patterned butterfly on grass; right shows Claire Jackson lying in a field examining something closely

    Gaslit, shamed and swindled: the play about Eleanor Glanville, persecuted for her love of butterflies

May 2026

  • Wildflowers in a field

    Wildlife-filled childhoods have been lost

  • A close-up photograph of a mosquito appearing to bite human skin

    Mosquitoes can become attracted to insect repellant, study suggests

  • An iridescent green beetle

    Lord Howe Island got rid of its rats and mice – now its ‘wonderful’ insect life is back

  • The large white butterfly with leftover pupa on its wing.

    Young country diary
    Young country diary: Helping a butterfly into its new phase of life

  • Country diary
    Country diary: Violence, precision and a free lunch – welcome to the weird world of pollination

  • The age of extinction
    Collecting pollen can be as exhausting for bees as flight take-off, study shows

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