Through the culmination of 30 years of hard work from many partners, the day finally came last week to release a group of captive-reared Mitchell’s Satyr Butterflies in Sarett’s fen habitat!

The aerobatic display of a hunting bat is another of the many summer wonders. Every schoolchild knows that bats hunt by echolocation of their prey.

June is the month to see the evidence of spittlebugs. Children are most likely to notice these creatures as the perching spots are at a child’s eye level. They may ask why somebody spit on the plants as they view a tiny pile of bubbles. Spittlebugs are the nymph stage of an insect that looks like a leafhopper as an adult. They hang onto a plant, usually a tall grass, upside down and feed on the plant’s sap. Extra sap, which is excreted through the abdomen, drips over tiny hooks that cause...