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Endangered fly rediscovered on unusual ‘crabitat’

In 1966, 21 specimens of a new type of fly were collected from an unusual habitat in the Caribbean by

It was the furthest that The Ranger had travelled for a good ten years… nearly to Wales. Just to make

The Ranger and his friend Cat are off for some overseas travel this month – quitting the Isle of Wight

The Ranger has no love for windchimes. This stems from when he lived a couple of houses down from a

By guest blogger Ray Harrington-Vail of the Footprint Trust Carbon offsetting has become one of the buzz phases of the

Scientific names – what’s the point, eh? Why don’t we just all call things by their proper names, and then

Driving to a tedious meeting about planning applications today The Ranger pumped up the stereo, and up popped one of

Winter rolls on after a long wet summer, and hosepipe bans are in the news? Yes, that’s because even when

The Ranger’s correspondent in Fratton writes as follows to pose an intriguing question to readers. He even includes an illustration

The celebrated American entomologist and humanist Professor E.O.Wilson has set out his stall in favour of a new project: The