Hunting butterflies in magical meadows
Enjoy our showiest insects – and the flowers they depend on – at Cors Goch Nature Reserve
Speckled wood butterfly - Vicky Nall
Enjoy our showiest insects – and the flowers they depend on – at Cors Goch Nature Reserve
Discover the 'Butterfly Transect' at Marfod Quarry Nature Reserve and be part of a vital citizen science project which has been carried out for over 30 years!
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
Save our limestone grasslands from the invasion of cotoneaster by signing up to the Plant Swap Scheme and receive a £10 National Garden Gift Voucher. Help protect our local wildlife by reducing…
Join Project Officer, Craig Wade, as he explores the fascinating limestone grasslands of Moel Hiraddug, known as Dyserth Mountain – an Iron Age hillfort, also a former quarry, and now forming rare…
Join us as we walk around the land surrounding our Minera Quarry Nature Reserve and discover an incredibly diverse population of flora.
Help us count the greater butterfly orchids and take part in a botanical survey with our friendly group of staff and volunteers
The delightful fragrance of wild thyme can punctuate a summer walk over a chalk grassland. It forms low-growing mats with dense clusters of purple-pink flowers.
Cyfle i ddarganfod byd natur gydag oedolion eraill tebyg i chi yn ein Gwarchodfa Natur hardd ni yn Big Pool Wood.
The hairy-footed flower bee can be seen in gardens and parks in spring and summer, visiting tubular flowers like red dead-nettle and comfrey. As its name suggests, it has long, orange hairs on its…
A sprawling plant, wild liquorice often has large, kinked stems. It favours woodland, scrub and grassland habitats on chalky soils - look for pea-like flowers and pods. This liquorice is not…