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How aphids can help to save swifts

This summer, what foods are you looking forward to eating? An ice cream in the park? Fish and chips by the sea? Aphids in the garden?

Tawny mining bee

Look and listen for the best of spring wildlife

This is one of the very best times of the year to experience Yorkshire’s wildlife, as nature bursts into life all around us. Try our top tips to get the most out of this springtime bonanza.

Thin fingers of black and white fungus growing through autumn leaves

Yorkshire's spooky species

As Halloween draws near, we reveal some of Yorkshire's most weird and wonderful wildlife.

Tansy Beetle

Small but mighty

Insects are the basic building blocks for life on earth. They are found at the bottom of almost every food chain, working away in our compost heaps or in the soil, pollinating our flowers and…

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