Brown trout
A fierce predator of small fish and flying insects, the brown trout is widespread in our freshwater rivers. It is has a golden body, flanked with pale-ringed, dark spots.
A fierce predator of small fish and flying insects, the brown trout is widespread in our freshwater rivers. It is has a golden body, flanked with pale-ringed, dark spots.
Use the blank canvas of your garden to make a home for wildlife.
A regular in gardens, hunting around compost heaps and under stones, the brown centipede is a common minibeast. Despite its name, it has 15 pairs of legs - one on each segment of its body.
Considered Britain's most threatened butterfly, the high brown fritillary can be only be found in a few areas of England and Wales.
Learn a tradition with its roots in the Iron Age and build your own mini dry stone wall to attract wildlife.
With club-shaped leaflets on its fronds, wall-rue is easy to spot as it grows out of crevices in walls. Plant it in your garden rockery to provide cover for insects.
Few of us can contemplate having a wood in our back gardens, but just a few metres is enough to establish this mini-habitat!
The brown long-eared bat certainly lives up to its name: its ears are nearly as long as its body! Look out for it feeding along hedgerows, and in gardens and woodland.
Provide for bees and butterflies all year round by planting shrubs and plants that flower at different times.
This day-flying moth is found on flowery meadows, often in the company of other moths and butterflies.
Plant flowers that release their scent in the evening to attract moths and, ultimately, bats looking for an insect-meal into your garden.
Pellitory-of-the-wall is a small to medium-sized herb that frequently grows from cracks in old stone walls, pavements, cliffs and banks, and churches and ruins.