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This tiny beetle hid in UK homes all winter – now it's waking up in March to feast on clothes and carpets

All winter they hide in the quiet corners of British homes; in March, carpet beetles suddenly appear, leaving fresh holes in ...
Wired

Here's how we know that the UK's insects are dying out

In a corner of Hertfordshire, in one of the oldest agricultural research institutes in the world – the Rothamsted Research Institute, founded in 1843 – entomologist Chris Shortall spends his days ...
AOL

Sightings of one of UK's rarest insects triple

Sightings of the green forest hoverfly have tripled since 2022 and is only found in New Forest and Windsor Great Park Sightings of one of the UK's rarest insects have tripled. The green forest ...
BBC

Insect boom for UK after warmest, sunniest spring on record

Certain insects - including ladybirds, butterflies and wasps - are thriving after the warmest and sunniest spring on record across the UK. Aphid numbers, the main food source of ladybirds, boomed ...
New Scientist

Flying insects splatting on cars have dropped by 60 per cent in UK

New evidence suggests there is some truth to anecdotes about today’s car windscreens being covered in fewer dead insects than in the past. A UK citizen science survey has found the number of flying ...