Button & Squirt - Amazing British Bugs ID Cards

Winner of Best educational toy at the Blog on Toy Awards 2022! 

Do you love Bugs?

Then you are going to love this super fun set of cards, introducing you to 70 amazing bugs found in the British Isles. 

We couldn't fit every bug that you might see in the set so we have chosen 70 that will give you a great introduction to some of the amazing bugs you might find.

As ever this set has been designed and illustrated by myself in my home studio in sunny Wiltshire, and printed in the UK using sustainable materials and coated with a water based varnish that means they remain recyclable at the end of their life. They are printed in a solar powered factory. 

What are they?

Each Card is double sided, with a bug featured on each side. 

There is an illustration of the bug along with their common name, scientific name, when to see them in the year and a fun fact. 

As ever the background colour of the card helps you sort them and learn something else as well. For these bug cards the colours help you organise your cards into different types of bugs, so you can have a look at all of the butterflies, or slugs, or spiders etc together. 

What Bugs are in the set?

Green Tortoise Beetle

Bloody Nosed Beetle

Red Headed Cardinal Beetle

Stag Beetle

Common Glow Worm

Golden-ringed Dragonfly

Emperor Dragonfly

Common Blue Damselfly

Large Red Damselfly

Common Blue Butterfly

Small White Butterfly

Red Admiral Butterfly

Peacock Butterfly

Poplar Hawk-moth

Cinnibar MothScalloped Oak Moth

Swallow-tailed Moth

Elephant Hawk Moth

Oak Bush Cricket

Common Green Grasshopper

Meadow Grasshopper

Dark Bush Cricket

Narrow Headed Ant

Yellow Meadow Ant

Wood Ant

Black Garden Ant

Scorpion Fly

Dark Edged Bee Fly

Hornet Mimic Hoverfly

Earwig

Silverfish

Common Woodlouse

Brown Centipede

White Legged Snake Millipede

Cucumber Spider

Zebra Jumping Spider

Flower Crab Spider

Woodlouse Spider

Giant House Spider

Garden Spider

Leopard Slug

Yellow Slug

Dusky Slug

Large Black Slug

White Lipped Snail

Girdled Snail

Garden Snail

Rounded Snail

Redhead Worm

7 Spot Ladybird

2 Spot Ladybird

14 Spot Ladybird

Harlequin Ladybird

Tree Wasp

Tawny Mining Bee

Red Mason Bee

Garden Bumblebee

Common Wasp

Honeybee

European Hornet

Sycamore Moth Caterpillar

Elephant Hawkmoth Caterpillar

Swallow-tailed Moth Caterpillar

Lime Hawk-moth Caterpillar

Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar

Emperor Moth Caterpillar

Small Tortoiseshell Caterpillar

Speckled Wood Caterpillar

Common Green Shieldbug

Spiked Shieldbug

How to use them!