For a few weeks in July, groups of people can be found wandering English woods carrying strange produce - including rotting fish, Stinking Bishop cheese and dirty nappies. They're out to bait the ...

An elusive species of butterfly, which is the second largest in the UK, has been sighted at a National Trust estate. The purple emperor, with a wingspan of around 8cm, was sighted at Sheringham Park ...

The purple beetle possesses a shiny purple hued body that looks beautiful in sunlight. The purple fiddler crab is a unique animal that has a bright purple shell with golden-yellow patterns over it.

It is one of the most beautiful – and most elusive – butterflies ever to be found in Britain. And after decades of decline, the magnificent Purple Emperor is set to make a comeback in record numbers ...

One of Britain's largest butterflies has been seen in Derbyshire for the first time since records began nearly 200 years ago. A scheme to plant hundreds of goat willow trees was launched last year, in ...

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