Running for a Wilder Pentwyn
On Saturday the 25th of March, Radnorshire Wildlife Trusts’ Ambassador Ben Porter will be joining forces with his good friend and insect expert Will Hawkes in an attempt to run 65km across…
On Saturday the 25th of March, Radnorshire Wildlife Trusts’ Ambassador Ben Porter will be joining forces with his good friend and insect expert Will Hawkes in an attempt to run 65km across…
The common red soldier beetle is also known as the 'bloodsucker' for its striking red appearance, but it is harmless. It is a beneficial garden insect as the adults eat aphids, and the…
This elegant wading bird is a rare visitor to the UK, though occasionally one or two of pairs will nest here.
Limited in distribution, this sweetly-scented, short-cropped, springy grassland is famed for its abundance of rare and scarce species.
Rare summer visitors, honey buzzards breed in open woodland where they feed on the nests and larvae of bees and wasps.
A rare habitat remarkable for its colourful diversity of wildflowers and abundant birdlife, machair grassland is a feast for the ears and eyes.
An unmistakeable insect of heaths, sand dunes and grasslands, the Emperor moth is fluffy, grey-brown, with big peacock-like eyespots on all four wings. Males can be seen during the day, but…
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 seagrass species is a kind of flowering plant that lives beneath the sea, providing an important habitat for many rare and wonderful species.
The rare natterjack toad is found at just a few coastal locations, where it prefers shallow pools on sand dunes, heaths and marshes.
The rare Slavonian grebe is an attractive diving bird with distinctive, golden ear tufts that give rise to its American name - 'horned grebe'.
Whether it's a flowerpot, flowerbed, wild patch in your lawn, or entire meadow, planting wildflowers provides vital resources to support a wide range of insects that couldn't survive in…