We've got something to bug you about

I’m sure you don’t need me to inform you that we’re all pretty keen on birds round here.

But we also love otters and bats. We’re potty about trees and lizards. We are more than partial to wild flowers and natterjack toads. And insects – glorious, buzzing, fluttering, creeping, swarming, burrowing insects.

So we’re more than a little proud to be making a song and dance about our plans to reintroduce four species of insects onto our reserves.

We will be helping to bring the dark bordered beauty moth back to Scotland, and back from the brink of extinction. The short haired bumblebee will be released at our Dungeness reserve in Kent, after some specimens have been brought back from New Zealand where the species has clung on since British settlers introduced them there 100 years ago.

Pine hoverflies are currently being bred in captivity for a future release and the field cricket is set to make a comeback to our Farnham Heath and Pulborough Brooks reserves.

So net time you’re out at one of our reserves make sure you keep your eyes peeled for bugs as well as birds.