Having a Barclays
By guest contributor HM the Cat mu·se·um feet The feeling of prostration you get having walked gently through a whole
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The Ventilator
Incorporating The Ranger's Blog
Author: Matthew Chatfield
We heard you wanted to see…
…a picture of a simply enormous centipede. So here it is. This is Scolopendra heros, the aptly-named giant red-headed centipede.
Read moreA challenge worth rising to
The Red Tape Challenge! Wow, this has got to be good! The government is asking us all to get together
Read moreAnt vs. Spider
Thought I’d gone? Not really. Although I’m now even more of a virtual ranger than I ever was. Meanwhile, spiders!
Read moreThis is a ******* wasp!
Regular readers will know how the Ranger has an uneasy respect for waspkind. At this time of the year it’s
Read moreLocal provenance food at Waitrose
Wahoo! The Isle of Wight has finally joined the middle class, and a branch of Waitrose has opened in East
Read moreWhy do spiders come indoors in the autumn?
A perennial question on this site’s popular Ask the Ranger facility is “Where do spiders go in the winter?” (So
Read moreBook Review: Flowers in the Field, Faith Anstey
The small learned society is a mainstay of British amateur natural history. Continuing the work of the gentleman-naturalists of the
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Why do Naturenet readers want to kill everything?
After the Ranger’s spam rant you’d have thought that he’d have had enough of ferreting in his server stats. But
Read moreFly world set abuzz by proposal to rename Drosophila
It might have been a while ago but if you ever studied biology at any kind of advanced level the
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