Garden bugs and beasties
Head into the garden and peer among flowers, grasses and plant pots. Featuring common garden minibeasts, from shieldbugs to snails and froghoppers to flower beetles. Great for young explorers!
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Park and Garden Birds Guide
Is that a chaffinch, greenfinch or bullfinch at the bird feeder? Do you know a great tit from a blue tit? Covering the top 50 birds seen in parks and gardens, including ponds and rivers.
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Garden mosses guide
Try this introductory guide to mosses and liverworts, featuring 6 liverworts and 18 mosses common around lawns, plant pots, walls and pavements.
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Non-native invasive plants guide
31 terrestrial plants restricted by UK and Irish legislation, including Perfoliate Alexanders, Pirri-pirri Bur, Skunk Cabbage, Japanese Knotweed, Variegated Yellow Archangel and Virginia Creeper.
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Water plants guide
From bogbean to bulrush, from water soldier to yellow flag this guide features 54 species found at ponds, lakes, canals and slow-flowing streams and rivers.
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Harvestmen
Harvestmen are spider-like invertebrates common in late summer and autumn, although species are present all year. The 2nd edition of the FSC's fold-out guide to harvestmen covers all 34 species from Britain and Ireland.
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Woodlouse name trail
A name trail with 9 common species of woodlice in gardens and around buildings. Many gardens will contain several species, and they are relatively easy to find and identify.
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Spiders guide
Featuring 40 common spiders seen in homes, unheated outbuildings and around gardens. Also includes a concise guide to web shapes. Co-created with the British Arachnological Society.
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Foraging guide
Written by an experienced forest schools leader, FSC Foraging is a great guide to take on a walk with children. Featuring edible flowers, leaves, nuts, fruits, seeds and roots, it covers 25 of the most commonest and tastiest plants to find.
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Butterflies guide
Covering all 60 wild butterflies of Britain and Ireland, with beautiful colour life-sized paintings by acclaimed artist Richard Lewington. Co-created with Butterfly Conservation.
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Bee guide
Gardeners know the value of pollinators. Featuring 28 species of bees found in gardens, including mining bees, cavity-nesting bees and cuckoo bees as well as the Big Six bumblebees. Co-created with Buglife.