Topics: Insects

Vehicle drivers and passengers asked to count bugs squashed on registration plates after an essential journey from 1st June.

• Update
• Bugs Matter
• Campaigns
• Insects

The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union and agreed to authorise the use of the highly damaging neonicotinoid thiamethoxam for the treatment of sugar beet seed in 2021. The Wildlife Trusts strongly oppose this decision.

• Press release
• Insects
• Pesticides

As the temperature is rising, here are a few tips to help the wildlife in the hot weather.

• Hedgehog
• Insects
• Summer
• Wildlife Gardening

This jewel wasp is a species new to Britain and new to Kent, found on our reserves and most likely enabled by a changing climate – we always think of climate change as bad, but as species are pushed out of their continental range and expand north, they have to find stepping stones of habitat further north or go extinct. We are going to lose species to climate change, but also gain them.

• Press release
• Climate change
• Insects
• Species