flies – The Ventilator

Incorporating The Ranger's Blog

Turf wars: the battle against plastic grass

Back in spring 2019, horrified by the unimaginable loss of invertebrate biomass, I wrote in praise of minibeasts, and their

This weekend I discovered that the biggest fly in the UK was much bigger than I’d previously thought. Yes, we

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

Parasite! The very word is an insult. But is that entirely fair to parasites? Have parasites just had a bad