Insects

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• This dragonfly is both messenger and missile

  10 Sep 2014: Country diary: Wenlock Edge: Insects use their bodies in ways that seem mysterious and bear marks that are cryptic, as if their original meaning has been lost

• Eyewitness: Negresti Oas, Romania

  Picture, 9 Sep 2014:

  Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

• Damselflies - in pictures

  9 Sep 2014: Remus Tiplea photographs close-ups of damselflies in his back garden in Negresti Oas, Romania, after coaxing the live bugs into position

• Hits and misses in laying down the next generation

  6 Sep 2014: Country Diary: Sandy, Bedforshire: A girl crouched to take the dragonfly’s picture. It flew up, landed and laid an egg on her knee

• Butterflywatch: It's not over yet

  4 Sep 2014: Patrick Barkham looks back on a disappointing year for butterflies, but notes that a fine September could still bring some surprises

• The wood beats with the first signs of autumn

  4 Sep 2014: Country Diary: Bedford Purlieus Wood, Cambridgeshire: White angelica umbels crawl with drone flies, sawflies, solitary wasps and bristly tachinid flies. But this is not a safe place to be a fly

• A dramatic encounter with an elephant hawk-moth caterpillar

  1 Sep 2014: Country diary: Blackwater Carr, Norfolk: This animal will soon wander off and wrap itself in the hardened case of its pupa

• The week in wildlife – in pictures

  29 Aug 2014: Sea turtles, kingfishers and butterflies are among the pick of this week’s images from the natural world
  

• Golden asters lead a cavalcade of rare and beautiful plants

  28 Aug 2014: Country diary: Berry Head, Devon: I am not sure what to make of this perfect moth, a shard of oat-coloured wing, that is eating the headland’s rarest flower

• Giant wasps' nest found growing on single bed in spare bedroom

  27 Aug 2014:

  Nest in Winchester home measured 3ft x 1.5ft and housed 5,000 wasps, which had chewed through mattress and pillows

• The week in wildlife - in pictures

  22 Aug 2014: Hummingbirds, leopards, pangolins and sharks are among the pick of this week’s images from the natural world

• Grub's up: maggots and crickets on menu at Britain's first 'pestaurant'

  22 Aug 2014:

  Rentokil crawls into street food arena with cheesy worms, insect lollipops and pigeon burgers, specially farmed for intrepid diners

• Humans give malaria to mosquitoes – we need a vaccine to stop this

  20 Aug 2014: Ashley Birkett: It may sound crazy, but preventing the insects from becoming infected would stop the parasite in its tracks and could save many lives

• The intoxication of the speckled wood butterfly

  20 Aug 2014: Country diary: Wenlock Edge: Drunk and disorderly, he wavers through the air until he catches the whiff of ripeness, finds the fruit and locks on

• Butterflies, beetles and banknotes: tuning colour efficiently

  19 Aug 2014: Athene Donald: Structural colours are more visible and vivid than those that use pigments – as many examples from the natural world demonstrate. But sometimes pure white is what is required

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