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Book cover for Small Game Hunter, featuring illustrated insects and green foliage

Small Game Hunter

Peter Smithers

Small Game Hunter is a captivating biography shaped by the author’s lifelong encounters with insects and spiders. It spans moths drawn to light traps and …

A Weed-lover’s Calendar – Secrets of those errant plants revealed

Rachel Fulcher

Discover the hidden pleasures of weeding! Ever wondered how many weed species there might be in your garden? When Rachel Fulcher discovered up to 88 …

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An Introduction to the Butterflies of Cyprus

Adrian M Riley

A photographic pocket guide designed to help you identify both resident and migratory butterflies found on the island. Cyprus is home to a wide variety …

Bringing Home the Cows – Growing up on a wild Devon farm

Bill Symondson

This is the story of a boy growing up on a farm in the 1960s. Nine-year old Bill, the author, moves with his family from …

An Invertebrate Fable – Ten Sequences of poetry about insects, gastropods & arthropods

Simon Zonenblick

Invertebrates are fascinating, their shapes and behaviour intriguing. In this anthology, the author takes us into the English countryside in search of butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, …

Bee Tiger

Philip Howse

The Death’s Head Hawk-Moth through the Looking-glass. Philip Howse, an expert on mimicry, takes us on a tour de force of the biology and rich …

Cover of Discovering British Wild Flowers

Discovering British Wild Flowers

Deirdre Shirreffs

Out and About (wildflowers UK ID) This is a bright and cheerful photographic identification guide aimed at youngsters to help them discover wild flowers when …

Dragons and Damsels

Adrian Riley

An identification guide to the British and Irish Odonata. This is a comprehensive and user-friendly photographic identification guide to all species, sexes and forms of …

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Bee Tiger

Philip Howse

The Death’s Head Hawk-Moth through the Looking-glass. Philip Howse, an expert on mimicry, takes us on a tour de force of the biology and rich …

Cover of Discovering British Wild Flowers

Discovering British Wild Flowers

Deirdre Shirreffs

Out and About (wildflowers UK ID) This is a bright and cheerful photographic identification guide aimed at youngsters to help them discover wild flowers when …

Making Wildlife Ponds – How to create a pond to attract wildlife to your garden

Jenny Steel

Any kind of access to water in your garden will attract new wildlife, such as damsel- and dragonflies, toads and frogs to breed, birds to …

Making Garden Meadows – How to create a natural haven for wildlife

Jenny Steel

Making Garden Meadows will tell you how to create a meadow area in your garden, full of wildflowers and teeming with wildlife. Also how to …

News and Views

Anthropomorphism in nature: evil weeds and wicked wolves

August 5, 2025

In former times and perhaps still now, humans have tended to anthropomorphise animals and describe them effectively in our own likeness, even wearing clothes and speaking languages. One only has to think of the animals in Kenneth Grahame’s (1908) Wind in the Willows or Beatrix Potter’s many early 20th C. …

Norfolk Wildlife 2nd edition

Updating further the new cover for Norfolk Wildlife

August 4, 2025

That’s it. The new cover for Norfolk Wildlife does look so much brighter and friendlier.

Fun SWAT! activities for rainy days

July 29, 2025

We have just added some new resources under the Extras page, such as fun foldables and colouring-in postcards of SWAT! by author and cartoonist Mike Barfield. Perfect for rainy days.