How to attract butterflies to your garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
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A summer heatwave
While we did have a bit of a rain shower on the Great Fen yesterday, late in the afternoon, it has been a dry summer.
Wildlife highlights this summer
Merging natural history, ecological monitoring and wildlife conservation has provided some new 'shared' highlights at the Great Fen this summer.
Monitoring Project Sightings
Species: Butterflies & Dragonflies
Location: Summer Standing and Chapel land
131 butterflies of 8 species / 50 dragonflies of 9 species
Summer at Water Works
Project Manager Kate Carver talks us through the exciting leaps forward for the crops, the science and the people of our peatland paludiculture trials.
February sightings
A record breaking February results in some stunning invertebrate sightings and birds breaking into song.
Farm to Furniture - Summer School Success
In 2025, we hosted an exciting new summer school with art school STORE. Students experimented with materials made from wetland plants to design and construct their own furniture.
Monitoring Project Sightings
Species: Butterflies & dragonflies
Location: Woodwalton Fen
10 butterflies of 4 species / 205 dragonflies of 4 species
Monitoring Project Sightings
Species: Butterflies & dragonflies
Location: Woodwalton Fen
30 butterflies of 9 species / 283 dragonflies of 6 species
Monitoring Project Sightings
Species: Butterflies & dragonflies
Location: New Decoy
75 dragonflies of 4 species / 72 butterflies of 8 species
Monitoring Project Sightings
Species: Butterflies & dragonflies
Location: New Decoy
466 butterflies of 13 species/ 15 dragonflies of 8 species
Monitoring Project Sightings
Species: Butterflies & dragonflies
Location: Corney's Farm
601 Butterflies of 10 species / 39 dragonfly of 7 species