National Insect Week returns in 2022
A range of learning resources relating to insects and entomology from the Royal Entomological Society, our National Insect Week partners and online resources we have spotted. Please browse through the list or use the tick boxes to select audience and resource type.
Factsheet
A pocket guide to six common species of UK bumblebee
For: Secondary Adults
Activities sheet
interest your family in gardening and have fun outdoors
For: Everyone
Activities sheet
Build your own Dung Beetle
For: Secondary Adults
Activities sheet
Build your own Narrow-headed Ant
For: Primary Secondary Whole School Adults
Factsheet
Help record five under-recorded bee species across the North East
For: Everyone
Activities sheet Lesson plan
Free resources about animal behaviour
For: Primary Secondary Whole School Adults
Activities sheet Factsheet Lesson plan
Free teaching resources for science and plant biology,
For: Primary Secondary Whole School Adults Everyone
Activities sheet
How to Build your own Butterfly Garden with Billyoh
For: Primary Secondary Whole School Adults
Activities sheet Lesson plan
Learning resources related to M.G. Leonard's Beetle Boy book trilogy and Beetle Collector's handbook.
For: Primary
Activities sheet
Colour in the Eyed Hawk-moth and the Garden Tiger Moth with the Royal Entomological Society.
For: Everyone
There are lots of contenders here – possibly the pretty red and blue rove beetle Paederus – very, very tiny amounts of its poison have been used to cure chronic ulceration in people. Ladybirds are pretty poisonous (and pretty) and can bleed foul-tasting poisonous brightly coloured blood from their knees.
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