Common ragwort
The yellow flower heads of common ragwort are highly attractive to bees and other insects, including the cinnabar moth.
The yellow flower heads of common ragwort are highly attractive to bees and other insects, including the cinnabar moth.
A very rare species, this moth is now limited to one site in the UK. Males can be a striking reddish buff in colour.
This snowy white moth is easily mistaken for the similar brown-tail, until it lifts its abdomen to reveal a burst of golden-yellow.
The common pipistrelle is so small, it can fit into a matchbox! Despite its size, it can easily eat 3,000 insects a night: look for it flitting around the garden or a lit lamp post as it chases…
This striking black-and-white moth flies during the day in open woodlands, moorlands, and bogs. It's most common on Scottish moors.
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
The mohawk-sporting caterpillar of this moth is often seen on shrubs and trees in late summer. As adults the orange-brown males fly by day, but the flightless females don't stray far from…
The orange ladybird is pale orange with up to 16 cream spots on its wing cases. It feeds on mildew on trees like sycamore and ash, and hibernates in the leaf litter. It often turns up in moth…
We can all take steps to protect hedgehogs on bonfire night. Follow our 4 steps to make sure you keep hedgehogs safe.
Join MWT Conservation Officer to walk around town to find out how to identify swifts and record them.
Join MWT Conservation Officer and Gwenoliaid Duon Llanidloes Swifts for a slow walk around town to learn how to identify swifts and record their nest sites.
Join MWT Conservation Officer and Save Our Swifts Newtown for a slow walk around town to learn how to identify swifts and record their nest sites.