Slugging it out
By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener It’s a slug eat slug world BBC news online says that there are 15
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The Ventilator
Incorporating The Ranger's Blog
What’s inside fading celebrities?
A good dose of earnest science recently in the Ranger’s Blog gives him an excuse to exercise a question that
Read moreIm in ur genome, infectin ur flies
How awesome is this? The bacterium Wolbachia is thought to parasitically infect “70 percent of the world’s invertebrates, coevolving with
Read moreReinventing the Wheel of Life?
The celebrated American entomologist and humanist Professor E.O.Wilson has set out his stall in favour of a new project: The
Read moreBritain’s Hitler Oak succumbs… but was it the last of its kind?
Harold Whitlock was a British athlete who won the gold medal in the 50 kilometre walk at the 1936 Summer
Read moreToday, in Rudolph Nureyev’s lunchbox…
The Wildlife Gardener sends a remarkable image of a carrot found pirouetting around her garden… Looks familiar? It should do
Read moreExplorer finds two-nosed dog by giant meteorite crater; leaves behind complete church organ.
This one’s almost, but not quite beyond belief. It’s even on the BBC so it must be true, mustn’t it?
Read moreDown By The Sea – The Wildlife Gardener Abroad
By Ruth D’Alessandro, The Wildlife Gardener The Wildlife Gardener’s favourite landscape is chalk downland. She lives in it, walks through
Read moreGeodiversity – conserving what’s underfoot
Suffolk geologist Tim Holt-Wilson has written a new article for Naturenet about geodiversity: …the rocks, soils, landforms and landscape-forming processes
Read moreThoughts on Falling Off a Bike
By The Hampshire Ponderer Not much of a machine by modern standards; only four Sturmey-Archer gears modestly tucked away in
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