Analysis by NHS England, which runs the NHS website, found there were 454,238 visits to the page on bites and stings between June 25 and August 25 this year. This is a rise of almost 20% on the same period last year, when there were 386,352 visits.

Numbers peaked in the week of July 14 – when England was experiencing a heatwave – when there were 69,682 visits or one approximately every nine seconds.

Read more – NHSE (30/8/25)