National Insect Week returns in 2022
Factsheet
Useful advice from an insect expert about how to get to know your insects better
For: Everyone
Activities sheet
If you want to catch a few insects at a time to look at, then why not make a sweep net?
For: Adults
Activities sheet
Top tips for spotting insects in trees
For: Adults
Activities sheet
Mini-beast mansions can provide a varied range of nesting and resting sites for insects, any extra effort in construction will be much appreciated by a rich diversity of visitors and residents.
For: Adults
Activities sheet
The addition of a bug box to your garden is a great way to offer lodgings to your six-legged friends and suitable for even the smallest outside space.
For: Adults
Activities sheet
Find out how you can encourage insect diversity in your garden through planting shrubs and hedges.
For: Adults
Activities sheet
Including a patch of native wildflowers in your garden is a great way to create an insect-friendly habitat, be it a few metres of ‘buzzing border’ or a larger ‘majestic meadow’.
For: Everyone
Book
David Attenborough reveals a secret universe it is teeming with life and is all around us, yet we never see it. It is the world of the very small, and it is a world of sex, drugs and violence.
For: Adults
Website
The Woodland Trust quite simply encourages you to 'Pull on your wellies, roll up your sleeves and get outside!' And they are brimming with ideas on how to do just that.
For: Everyone
Activities sheet Lesson plan Podcast
Learning resources from the Linnean Society.
For: Primary Secondary Adults Everyone
In UK ants, wasps, bees & sawflies (Hymenoptera) have 6000+ species, just beating true flies (Diptera) at 5000+.
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