People across the UK are reporting seeing swarms of ladybirds roaming the skies and some have started invading people’s homes. Social media users have taken to X - formerly known as Twitter - to ...

Breathing Places would like you to turn over leaves, roll back stones and peer inside window frames in the hunt for ladybirds. Populations of some native UK ladybirds are in decline, possibly due ...

But they face threats too. Do One Thing for nature - spend some time looking for ladybirds and join the UK Ladybird Survey run by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). View some of the results ...

All species of ladybird in the UK hibernate - this is technically known as diapause. This is due to their life cycle, as the beetles you see now won't reproduce until next year. The adults of some ...

The most famous beetles in the UK are probably ladybirds. But did you know that there are over 4,000 beetle species to spot here? Plenty are easy to identify. Read on to discover 17 of the most ...

Ladybird experts suggest the hot summer has boosted numbers of the invasive Harlequin species, which first arrived in the UK in 2004. As the temperature cools, the Harlequin hibernates for the ...