We demonstrate the use of the magnetic-field-dependence of highly spatially confined, GHz-frequency ferromagnetic resonances in a ferromagnetic nanostructure for the detection of adsorbed magnetic nanoparticles. This is achieved in a large area magnonic crystal consisting of a thin ferromagnetic film containing a periodic array of closely spaced, nano-scale anti-dots. Stray fields from nanoparticles within the anti-dots modify resonant dynamic magnetisation modes in the surrounding magnonic crystal, generating easily measurable resonance peak shifts. The shifts are comparable to the resonance linewidths for high anti-dot filling fractions with their signs and magnitudes dependent upon the modes' localisations (in agreement with micromagnetic simulation results). This is a highly encouraging result for the development of frequencybased nanoparticle detectors for high speed nano-scale biosensing.Magnetic biosensors, in which biological analytes are tagged with magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs), have excellent potential for solid-state point-of-care medical diagnostics 1-3 . The technique is intrinsically matrix-insesntive 1 , can compete with industry-standard immunoassays 4 and can be combined with magnetic separation methods 5 . The central element of a magnetic biosensor is a detector for the stray or 'fringing' magnetic fields generated by magnetised MNPs which are used to label, typically in-vitro, analytes of interest within a biological sample. Previously used sensors include SQuIDs 6 , Hall sensors 7 , ferromagnetic rings 8,9 and magneto-impedance devices 10 . However one of the most widely used methods is that employing magnetoresistive (MR) magnetic field sensors [1][2][3][4][5][11][12][13][14] which are typically fabricated with at least one