They may be pretty to look at, but these colourful bugs are attacking garden plants across Britain. An army of exotic invaders is devouring leaves and stripping stems bare up and down the country.

Britain is in the grip of an alien invasion, with the ground under our feet harbouring a race of female clones created in the fiery volcanic wastelands of Japan and unleashed upon an unsuspecting ...

They look like the gaping bloody jaws of an alien monster, but this is actually a carnivorous plant which has evolved to capture insects. The new flesh eating hybrid has been created by US based ...

Gardeners in Cornwall have been asked to help protect the county's native flora from invasive "alien" plants. Cornwall Wildlife Trust said plants like Japanese Knotweed and Montbretia often spread to ...