Magnificent Minibeasts takes curious 7–11s down to eye level, where the smallest animals in Britain turn out to have the strangest lives of all.

Inside, they’ll discover why a stag beetle’s log pile is really a nursery, meet a devil’s coach horse beetle with a scorpion-style scare pose and find out whether insects poo or pee. There’s a lively Ask the Expert visit to a rare narrow-headed ant with a solar-powered home, too.

Then it’s time to step outside. Our Microhabitat Mission helps young nature detectives map the tiny teams in a garden, park or school ground, with kind, practical advice on looking closely and leaving every creature’s home just as they found it.

Inside this issue:

• The Tiny Team That Runs the World: the vital jobs minibeasts do, from turning fallen leaves into soil to helping flowers make seeds
• A Letter from a Stag Beetle, plus 10 mind-blowing minibeast facts
• Charlie Meets a Devil’s Coach Horse Beetle, the midnight hunter with the wonderfully spooky name
• Do Insects Poo or Pee? An unexpectedly fascinating investigation into frass, dung beetles and death farts
• Moksha’s Mission:simple ways to make a cosy winter refuge for garden minibeasts by leaving the leaves
• Ask the Expert: meet the rare narrow-headed ant and its sun-catching, thatched nest
• Wildlife news, a Which Minibeast Are You? quiz, puzzles, posters and a minibeast-themed competition
• Ad-free, plastic-free, and made for kids who love real science and real stories.