NatureSpot welcomes Dunton Bassett to our Parish Pages feature. Does your parish have one?

Thinking about buying or upgrading a microscope? We discuss digital microscopes and how to capture images of your samples with Philip Pike from GT Vision.

NatureSpot doesn't usually publicise campaigns but in this case we feel we have to make an exception. More...

Invasive Species Week is an annual event led by the Non-native Species Secretariat to raise awareness of invasive species and how everyone can help to preve

Join the NatureSpot team and members as we wrestle with sedges, spiders, bugs and the fastest plant in the world: https://youtu.be/AkMpSuG5TYY

Nominations for the 2021 NBN Awards for Wildlife Recording are open.There are five categories of Award More...

This new guide uses vegetative characters to identify the 90 most common grass species found in the UK. More...

Acari (Mites) Recording Scheme organiser Dr Matthew Shepard demonstrates how to use the key he has co-authored to identify soil mites. 

Can you help NatureSpot improve the biodiversity of road verges in Leicestershire? More...

Now is a good time to look out for leaf mines on Birch leaves. More...

Our list of Species Champions is growing. Will you join them?

Beware the Bluebell - they're trickier than they look! More...

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Add your support to NatureSpot's campaign to raise the profile of local wildlife by becoming one of our Species Champions. More...

We have upgraded the dashboard giving you much easier access to your NatureSpot data. More...

Welcome: John Clarkson, Head of Conservation, LRWT 
Talk 1: Leicestershire mammals with Dr Helen O’Brien 
Talk 2: Update on the VC55 plant atlas with Geoffrey Hall & Steve Woodward 

Richard Iliffe, Chairman of the Leicestershire Fungus Study group, writes:

At the recent Recorders Conference we were asked a number of questions about NatureSpot. More...

There are two Ambigolimax species in the UK. Ambigolimax valentianus, the Greenhouse Slug, is well established in VC55. But do we also have Ambigolimax nyctelius, the Balkan Three-banded Slug?