Gail Ashton is an award-winning wildlife photographer, writer and illustrator specialising in invertebrates. She photographed and co-authored An Identification Guide to Garden Insects of Britain and North-West Europe and her work has been published in other books and magazines such as Countryfile, BBC Wildlife and BirdWatching. Dominic Couzens is an award-winning nature writer with nearly 50 books and hundreds of published articles to his name. His best-known books include An Identification Guide to Garden Insects of Britain and North-West Europe, The Secret Lives of Garden Birds, Britain's Mammals (WildGuides), and A Year of Birdsong, while he contributes to magazines and newspapers, such as BirdWatching, The RSPB, Magazine, BBC Countryfile and The Guardian.