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Invertebrates

July 2024

  • Tony Juniper

    Where are all the butterflies this summer? Their absence is telling us something important

    Tony Juniper
  • Spanish slug sitting on an onion

    Britons asked to pop a slug in the post to help science

June 2024

  • Bumblebees and hoverflies attracted to the flowers of a globe thistle

    ‘I have seen the decline’: pesticides linked to falling UK insect numbers

  • Claire Ratinon

    I’m an eco-friendly grower – so why do I want to murder all these vile slugs?

    Claire Ratinon

May 2024

  • male hand holding a large number of pinkish-brown earthworms in a clump of loose brown soil

    ‘Pesticides by stealth’: garden soil conditioners killing worms, experts fear

    Even products marketed as ‘organic’ may be toxic, say campaigners, with risks for the wider ecosystem

April 2024

  • Woman opening an empty wallet

    Brief letters
    Unpaid carers lose out in benefits gap

  • Earthworm illustration

    UK invertebrate of the year
    Earthworm crowned UK invertebrate of the year by Guardian readers

  • A person holding a mobile phone displaying the NHS app.

    Brief letters
    Maybe the NHS can’t wait to get me off its list

  • Invertebrate of the year - Vote

    UK invertebrate of the year
    UK invertebrate of the year: vote for your favourite

  • UK invertebrate of the year
    Earthworm – the soil-maker, without whom we’d struggle to feed ourselves

  • UK invertebrate of the year
    The shrill carder: once-common bumblebee heading for extinction

  • UK invertebrate of the year
    ‘So weird and beautiful’: readers’ nominations for invertebrate of the year

  • UK invertebrate of the year
    The minotaur beetle – a down-to-earth devourer of dung

  • UK invertebrate of the year
    In defence of wasps: a misunderstood insect with human-like qualities

  • UK invertebrate of the year
    A very British butterfly: spectacular swallowtail is built for capricious summers

  • UK invertebrate of the year
    In defence of slugs and moths: the pesky invertebrates Britain loves to hate

  • UK invertebrate of the year
    Invertebrate of the year 2024: all hail Earth’s spineless heroes

  • UK invertebrate of the year
    Nominate your UK invertebrate species of the year

September 2023

  • Earthworms in soil

    The age of extinction
    Earthworms help produce as much grain as Russia, say researchers

  • Caribbean box jellyfish

    Jellyfish show how you don’t need a brain to learn, say researchers

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