Black and yellow stripes don't always mean a wasp or even a sting as Sue Taylor, BBOWT volunteer recorder, explains.

"The fences are stronger, the paths tidier, and the streams a little better understood. Each volunteer has played their part, bringing their own skills and enthusiasm to the task."

Outdoors or indoors, at home or even on holiday, we’ve got loads of ideas to keep the family busy all summer!

With over 80 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

In the heat of summer, spend time in woodland shade looking out for butterflies, spot vivid wildflowers among the grassland, and enjoy the sound of swifts in our streets.

Get some top tips for identifying our summer visitors - swifts, swallows, house and sand martins.

From beegrabbers to comb-horns, discover five weird and wonderful flies.

If you want to restore nature in your community but don't know where to start, get inspired by what this local group has achieved in just a few years

Butterfly expert Alan Sumnall offers a thorough guide to one of our most enchanting groups of butterflies – the blues.

The woodland workers scramble through the foliage, knocking in new posts and re-tensioning slack wire... It is imperative that the boundary is secured; once loose in the wood, a cow would be a…