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Native animals can make excellent neighbours. Blue banded bees pollinate our vegetable gardens. Microbats eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes a night and powerful owls keep rodents at bay. But could we go one step further, and change our homes to invite native animals in as housemates?

If you’ve been dreaming of turning your garden into a buzzing, fluttering paradise, you might think you need to splurge on fancy bee hotels or butterfly condos.

A familiar face returns to west London this weekend as Bees attempt to thwart their former talisman

Bees have lost previous academy chief Stephen Torpey to Manchester United

Pollinators still need your help in the colder months

Spring in Australia has arrived like a celebration. Magpies are warbling in the morning, wildflowers are bursting open across bushland, and the air is humming with life as tiny creatures have stirred back into action after the winter: bees darting between flowers, dragonflies skimming across ponds, and swarms of flying…

It's important to help bees in our own backyards, but some plants are less enticing to them than others

In this week’s newsletter: a conservation success story has a sting in its tail as wild pollinators pay the price

On a tiny Italian island, scientists conducted a radical experiment to see if the bees were causing their wild cousins to decline