If I asked you to name your favourite animal. You probably wouldn't pick a worm or a beetle or an earwig and that's a shame because minibeasts are amazing. Caterpillars can be plain or patterned ...

It’s easy to forget that we’re surrounded by hundreds and thousands of tiny little creepy crawlies called minibeasts. Minibeasts can also go by the more scientific term, invertebrates.

With their pincers, horns and armour, these minibeasts might look terrifying, but luckily for us they are tiny and harmless. You can see them all around us, living in leaf litter, plants, water, sand ...