The Ranger's Blog

The thoughts and writings of The Virtual Ranger, since 1995 the host and mascot of Naturenet, the UK's most popular independent environmental website; along with interjections from his real-life alter ego, Matthew Chatfield, and others. Featuring not only Naturenet and countryside related stuff, but, as on Naturenet, plenty of other material - more or less at random - that takes The Ranger's fancy. But you can be confident that soon enough he'll be rather sarcastic.

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Top 10 most read articles

1. Spider vs. Bee... BBC vs. National Geographic  (39244 views) 
2. Check out this massive wasp (34376 views) 
3. Invasion of the giant hornets... or is it? (30539 views) 
4. A fungus that looks like Britney Spears? (26347 views) 
5. Scientist: spitting worms have really weird sex (24621 views) 
6. What is the purpose of wasps? (21678 views) 
7. Gents, something in your pocket kills trees - and it's not a copper nail. (17617 views) 
8. Giant cave spiders found down malodorous hole (14016 views) 
9. Ivy on trees... kill it or cherish it?  (11527 views) 
10. Why do spiders come indoors in the autumn? (10471 views) 

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Naturenet popular links

• Get a Countryside Job: we tell you how!
• Habitat: daily wildlife and environment news from the British Isles
• Naturenet careers and training page
• Naturenet home page
• The Countryside Jobs Service
• The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

The Ranger's other blog favourites

• Architectures of Control
• Be The Jam
• BES Ecology and Policy Blog
• Boing Boing - a directory of wonderful things
• Countryside Jobs Service News
• Damn Interesting
• Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
• itisi
• Old Man Rich
• Pajamadeen
• Peak District Ranger Blog
• Ranger Gord
• The Honest Hypocrite
• The Pinkeye Chronicle
• The Science Blog
• Village Idiot

Isle of Wight Blogs

• At last I've got my plot!
• Craig's gardening blog
• Floating down to Camelot
• Island FolknStuff
• Isle of Wight Green Gym Blog
• Maybe it mutters....
• Another Pint Please...
• Brian's Blog
• Gift to Nature
• Island 2000 Trust Blog
• Island Pulse
• Matt & Cat's Isle of Wight Eating Out Guide
• Mustn't Grumble
• Remote Island
• Shuba's Blog
• Ventbag
• Ventnor Blog
• Wighteye

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