A new shieldbug has been recorded in Leicester. More...

Join the NatureSpot team online for our August ramble through wasps, flies, invasive molluscs and more recorded recently in Leicestershire and Rutland.

Some but not all moths are attracted to light traps.

This year Birdfair is going digital! More...

We keep adding new Wild Places to our listings. The latest is Holly Hayes Wood. More...

An informal online session via Zoom for a chat about preparing and handling insect specimens of various types: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2tB4ehzVCo

It's a month since we launched the NatureSpot mobile phone app. Have you tried it yet?

Online identification workshop in which we talk plants, fungi, flies and bugs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOm5Cx3K5rk

Leicestershire moth expert Paul Palmer shows how to identify The Uncertain (Hoplodrina octogenaria) and The Rustic Moth (Hoplodrina blanda), two confusion species which are difficult to separate 

Recently the Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland (BSBI) produced species density maps for the British Isles. The maps show species per tetrad for the periods 1950-2019, and for 2000-June 2020. More...

American biologist E.O. Wilson once said, "without insects the environment would collapse into chaos". More...

Our monthly chat about microscopy and identifications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioj4IwEfW3A

You can now use a mobile app on your phone or tablet to submit records to NatureSpot. More...

Leaf mines aren't always easy to identify, but you can't go wrong with this one. More...

In which we talk bugs, flies, lettuce, moths, poplars, sawflies and spiders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOvMw0zOi8k

In our 11 year history NatureSpot users have recorded 7,000 species in Leicestershire and Rutland. More...

Leicestershire moth expert Paul Palmer shows how to identify the Dark Sword-grass Moth (Agrotis ipsilon), followed by a mothing chat. 

The NatureSpot team invites you to join us online for an interactive identification workshop. More...

Lucie Hoelmer, Senior Environmental Partnerships Officer for Leicestershire County Council updates us on Environment Strategy in relation to biodiversity, habitat and local environment: https://www

Thank you to all of you who have volunteered to help survey the wildlife of road verges in biodiversity improvement trial. We still need help in four areas: Barkby (3 sites), Hallaton (1 site), Sheepy Magna (2 sites) and Great Easton (2 sites). If any of these are accessible to you and you would like to help, please get in touch.