When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

Barnsley Council’s cabinet has agreed to cut areas of grass less often across the borough, in a bid to encourage wildlife and insects. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can get ...

Two female parasitoid wasps depositing their eggs in the larvae of the gall midge hidden in a reed shoot. The tiny gall midge larvae feed within plant tissue creating bumps, known as “plant galls”.