This is a beginner's guide to the common groups of terrestrial invertebrates found in Britain. The guide is split into two sections, covering the insects and non-insect invertebrates separately. On ...

This section contains information on a number of common insect pest species that can be found in UK homes and cause damage to food, furniture, clothes and plants. Each page offers information on how ...

Once an insect or even small lizard blunders into this line, they are trapped and the web springs, suddenly pulling the prey closer to the spider.

Get all the information you need on the multi-legged bugs that surround us ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF.

Several 'creepy-crawlies' common in the garden are wrongly known as insects: centipedes, millipedes, woodlice, spiders, scorpions, harvestmen, ticks and mites are all from the family Arthropoda.

"We were able to identify a population that had moved from New Zealand to the UK, left behind males ... Mary told Radio 1 Newsbeat. It's common in other insect species but she says it can be ...

While experts say the upward trend goes back several years, some are getting jittery about bugs in the UK too. Here we answer ... although the common bedbug (cimex lectularius) has adapted the ...