invertebrates – The Ventilator

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

If you plant it, they will come

We can all pinpoint a moment when our lives would never be the same again. Perhaps the birth of a

One sunny Sunday in 1969 I was participating in a leapfrog competition when my mother popped out of the house

In a bizarre news item, the BBC reports: A man has admitted sending a rare venomous spider in a package

Look at this gorgeous North American solitary wasp (click the image for a bigger version if you like). Now wonder

Last seen in 1928, the colobognathÂ millipede Illacme plenipes is thought to have more legs than any other animal on earth

The worlds’s cutest spider. It’s a hard-fought contest, with the jumping spiders invariably on the podium. But I’ve got a

It’s no secret that 300 million years ago, the largest insects were a lot bigger than they are now. The largest

Wasps! Urgh! What are they good for? Absolutely nothing! Well, you’d think so by the amount of cursing they get

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