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Aug 15, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Safeerah Ahmed

    ‘Once I started zooming in, I never stopped’: the mesmerising art of macro photography (opens the original)

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    Converts describe a demanding form of capturing nature very close up that has grown in popularity in last few years Vote here for your favourite invertebrate of the year “I always just pray ‘please don’t fly away’,” says Dara Ojo. As a wildlife photographer, he can handle spending minutes, hours and sometimes days waiting for the shot, but insects are not always very cooperative. Ojo is one of an increasing number of photographers turning their lenses towards something smaller: macro p

  2. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Safeerah Ahmed

    The 20-year search for a vanishing custard-and-chocolate coloured moth (opens the original)

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    Yorkshire common was thought to be the only known site of dark bordered beauty moths in England – until now Vote here for your favourite invertebrate of the year Dave Wainwright first surveyed Wallington in Northumberland for a rare custard-and-chocolate coloured moth in 2004. He parked two miles from the site, hauled a moth trap across, and was bitten by a million flies. He did not find a single dark bordered beauty that night. The ground was heavily grazed by sheep, and the creeping willow the

  3. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Safeerah Ahmed

    The 20-year search for a vanishing custard-and-chocolate coloured moth - AOL (opens the original)

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    Dave Wainwright first surveyed Wallington in Northumberland for a rare custard-and-chocolate coloured moth in 2004. He parked two miles from the site, hauled a moth trap across, and was bitten by a million flies. He did not find a single dark bordered beauty that night. The ground was heavily grazed by sheep, and the creeping willow the caterpillars depend on was “quite well plucked”. Twenty years later, walking the same Northumberland estate with project officer Charlotte Rankin and National Tr

  4. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Safeerah Ahmed

    ‘I feel motherly towards them’: the nature reserve manager sharing her office with a wasp nest - AOL (opens the original)

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    When wasps began streaming through a rusted gap in her office door one June morning, Eilish Rothney’s first instinct was the same most people would have: get rid of them. The reserve manager for the Trinity Broads, part of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, had discovered a wasp colony taking up residence in her office, a converted shipping container. “They just built the nest inside my door,” she says. “My first thought was: ‘Oh no, I have to get rid of that now.’ But then I realised: ‘Wait, why? Why

  5. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Safeerah Ahmed

    ‘I feel motherly towards them’: the nature reserve manager sharing her office with a wasp nest (opens the original)

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    Eilish Rothney’s first instinct was to get rid of the wasps entering her converted shipping container in Norfolk. Now she enjoys their constant hum When wasps began streaming through a rusted gap in her office door one June morning, Eilish Rothney’s first instinct was the same most people would have: get rid of them. The reserve manager for the Trinity Broads, part of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, had discovered a wasp colony taking up residence in her office, a converted shipping container. â

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