Can nature help with our mental health? Youth Council member, Kirstie, shares her story.

Conserving wild spaces for nature has been the leading way to protect biodiversity for hundreds of years. While the idea of keeping nature safe in pockets of greenery is an attractive one,…

Felicity Paris has been transforming her garden in Withington for wildlife for the last five-years. In this blog she shares what she has been up to and how local wildlife has benefitted.

My Wild City Project Officer, Hilary Wood, tells us about her wildlife-friendly allotment plot. From seedlings to slugs, cabbages to caterpillars, growing vegetables and flowers in harmony with…

Snow, hail, floods, sunshine, gales – we had every weather imaginable last month – not that the wildlife seemed to mind! Here are the latest sightings from our nature reserves.

The end of summer is fast approaching and we are seeing the new queen and male bumblebees in our gardens regularly now. New social wasp queens are appearing and male wasps will follow in the next…

Is it that time of year already? As we move into July the early spring bees have finished their work and we start to see solitary wasps with more frequency and will start to see new queen…

Locally known as the Manchester argus, habitat destruction forced the large heath butterfly into extinction across Greater Manchester well over 100 years ago, but through our Species…

Mowing the lawn can be a real pain in the grass.

In the tiny world of insects, finding a suitable mate can be a BIG challenge - our love bugs need to pull out all the stops.