Insect rambles

Anyone who's not been living under a rock for the past two months can't fail to have noticed that the country is slightly damp at th...

A slightly busy week last week - my PhD viva, two days of a bumblebee meeting in Southampton, and some filthy weather meant I didn't get...

The prey shifts nervously, raising its head from grazing under the hunter's multifaceted gaze.  Sensing oncoming eight-legged movement, ...

This time last year I started properly paying attention to the wildlife in my local area, particularly in the 1km square centred roughly on ...

How something is named colours our perception, even our experiences with it – they’re the same thing but the Killer Shrimp is perceived ver...

'Where have all the ladybirds gone? I've hardly seen any this year.'  In this case the question is relayed, second-hand, via a f...

On the weekend of the 1-2 June 2013, hordes of people all over the UK went out into their gardens and scoured them for wildlife - birds in ...