Our collection of educational resources relating to insects and entomology from the Royal Entomological Society, Insect Week partners and other sources.

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  • American Museum of Natural History Zoology activites

    Activities from the American Museum of Natural History.

    • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
    • Beetles
    • Butterflies and moths
    • 0-5 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Activities sheet
    • Book
    • Factsheet

  • Ento-Club Comic Book

    Meet Natasha, the travelling entomologist! She loves insects, and would like to share her wisdom with you!…

    • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
    • Butterflies and moths
    • Cockroaches and termites
    • True bugs
    • 0-5 Years
    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • 6-10 Years
    • Book

  • Insects in green spaces

    This guide from the Royal Entomological Society gives you an overview of the different types of insects, with advice on how you might create a place for them to live in a green space near you. RES_A5 Insects_web artworkDownload…

    • Alderflies, dobsonflies and fishflies
    • Angel insects
    • Ants, bees, wasps and sawflies
    • Beetles
    • Booklice, barklice and parasitic lice
    • Bristletails
    • Butterflies and moths
    • Caddisflies or sedge flies
    • Cockroaches and termites
    • Dragonflies and damselflies
    • Earwigs
    • Fleas
    • Grasshoppers, crickets and bush-crickets
    • Ice crawlers and heelwalkers
    • Lacewings, antlions and mantidflies
    • Mantises
    • Mayflies or upwing flies
    • Scorpionflies
    • Silverfish and firebrats
    • Snakeflies
    • Stick-insects
    • Stoneflies
    • Thrips
    • True bugs
    • True flies
    • Twisted wing flies
    • Webspinners
    • 14-18 Years
    • Adults
    • Book

  • Life in the Undergrowth book

    David Attenborough reveals a secret universe it is teeming with life and is all around us, yet we never see it. It is the world of the very small, and it is a world of sex, drugs and violence.

    • Adults
    • Book

  • RES Student Essays

    Read popular science writing all about insects…

    • 11-13 Years
    • 14-18 Years
    • Adults
    • Book