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Not a common butterfly in Otley – they prefer the warmer south of the country – but spotted on Ragwort in Alex Eve’s wilded garden on the...

This angular, slender seabird visits Otley in the summer for the fishing at Knotford Nook and the Wetlands, though they will also eat...

These common, carnivorous beetles are sometimes used as a biological control agent, consuming aphids in greenhouses for example, and it...

These noisy invertebrates can be seen in Otley’s fields and gardens from May to October. The sound, of course, is once again...

This brown butterfly has a variable number of small, yellow-rimmed eye-spots (the “ringlets”), but when it emerges its wings are...

Young stoats born in spring are now splitting up to hunt for themselves, making this notoriously difficult to spot mammal, a little...

Pupils at St Joseph's Primary created landscape and meadow art as well as sculptures to represent the town. They then created a gallery...

The European honey bee, now found worldwide, is known for its delicious honey and painful sting. While painful, most stings are harmless...

Another insect-eating warbler that crosses the Sahara to spend the summer with us, adding its almost angry-sounding, “scratchy” song to...

BRIMSTONE MOTH: This beautiful moth has quite distinctive colouring: yellow with chestnut markings at the edges. You might even be able...

Whilst out walking with a friend recently, he asked me if a plant was edible, I said to him that most plants are ‘edible’ but if they are...

We are well into fly season, any sunny day from now on is going to be accompanied by swathes of flies. Whilst you are batting them away...