The long awaited 3rd edition of the AIDGAP identification guide to plant galls in Britain will be published in April. More...

Tree cover is one of the best ways to moderate the impact of climate change, especially in urban areas, so how is your neighbourhood doing? More...

A previously rare plant seems to be spreading in our area. We need your help to track its progress. More...

A second new species lives in Box bushes in Leicestershire & Rutland. More...

We are constantly working to update our species identification information available on NatureSpot. More...

With over 3 million pageviews in 2022, it costs money to keep NatureSpot online and available to you for free. More...

Leicestershire & Rutland Entomological Society have published a report looking at the extent of climate change in Leicestershire over the last 60 years. More...

An updated Rare Plant Register (RPR) for VC55 has been published by Geoffrey Hall and Stephen Woodward. More...

A new Bug appears to have been hiding on Box plants in our area. We need your help to find out how common it really is. More...

The NatureSpot Annual Report has been published, revealing that 2022 was another record breaking year in many ways. More...

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Now is the ideal time of year to start recording mosses and liverworts. More...

The Willow Emerald Damselfly is spreading rapidly. Ian Merrill describes how you can look for it in winter. More...

All the back issues of the Field Mycology, the British Mycological Society quarterly publication, are now available online. More...

We have improved our species pages so you can now see the Latest Images and Latest Records for that species right on the page - try it out on any of our more than 7000 species!

We constantly try to improve NatureSpot. Here's our latest innovation. More...

Open University student Siobhan Brocklehurst has used NatureSpot plant records to show that plant diversity is highest in urban areas. More...

Isaac Wesley was a Leicestershire industrialist and naturalist who put together a collection of insects in the late 1940s and early 1950s. His records are now being added to NatureSpot. More...

Mobile phone apps have been developed that use artificial intelligence to identify a plant or animal from a photo. They sound like a brilliant aid for naturalists, but are they any good and which are the best for UK wildlife?

Last October we set a NatureSpot Challenge - to find the leaf mines of the Virgin Pigmy moth on Aspen leaves. We need your help again to fill in the gaps. More...

Ivy Bees, Colletes hederae, were first recorded in Rutland in October 2017. But this year numbers have really taken off here. More...