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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.

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Who is it for?
  • 14-18 Years
  • Adults
What is it?
  • Book
Which insects?
  • 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

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