On the City of Leicester's Inner Ring Road Viper's-bugloss (Echium vulgare) blooms on the verge, a survivor from Buglife'

The Leicestershire & Rutland Swift Partnership are organizing several 'Swift Half' events for Swift Awareness Week, 16th to 23rd June

You can now read the latest edition of the Leicestershire & Rutland Recorder, published on behalf of the County Recorders Network by the Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust

One of the rarest landscapes in the East Midlands. Read more...

Recently you may have noticed these strange sheet webs covering Cotoneaster horizontalis hedges. What's going on?

We need your help looking for Damselflies. Read more...

The results of City Nature Challenge 2019 have been announced. More...

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Recently published - new County Summaries and Atlases to two of the most popular groups of beetles - Longhorns and Ladybirds - by Graham Finch, VC55 County Recorder for Coleoptera. More...

Last month we asked you to look out for the Dotted bee-fly, Bombylius discolor. Here's what happened...

Our slug populations are changing. Help us record and understand their populations. More...

We're looking for specimens of insect-eating fungi. More...

Help make Leicester the wildest place on earth and join us from midnight on Friday 26th April to Monday 29th April to record as many species of wildlife as possible!

Every record you submit to NatureSpot helps to record the changing wildlife of our county and country, but you can help us to make the process work more smoothly. More...

2019 is the Year of the Fly, and part of that is Bee-fly Watch. More...

Can we save the bumblebees? Only if we try. More...

Leicester City Council are giving away 100 free Swift nest boxes to city residents. More...

Keen NatureSpotters will have noted the return of flying insects in the last few weeks. The butterflies have been out in force but we have three other target species we need you to look out for.

The quality (accuracy) and indeed the quantity of records submitted to NatureSpot of course depends on the quality of our dedicated recorders, who criss-cross the County in all weathers. More...

It's a busy time of year for foxes (Vulpes vulpes). More...