Is there life on Mars? Who cares?
One sunny Sunday in 1969 I was participating in a leapfrog competition when my mother popped out of the house
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invertebrates
Spiders by post – that’s got to be cruel, hasn’t it?
In a bizarre news item, the BBC reports: A man has admitted sending a rare venomous spider in a package
Read moreChrysis inaequidens, the jewelled cuckoo wasp
Look at this gorgeous North American solitary wasp (click the image for a bigger version if you like). Now wonder
Read moreNice legs! The world’s leggiest animal is rediscovered.
Last seen in 1928, the colobognath millipede Illacme plenipes is thought to have more legs than any other animal on earth
Read moreIs Eresus the cutest spider on earth? Send me to find out.
The worlds’s cutest spider. It’s a hard-fought contest, with the jumping spiders invariably on the podium. But I’ve got a
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Why are there no really big insects any more? Blame birds.
It’s no secret that 300 million years ago, the largest insects were a lot bigger than they are now. The largest
Read moreThe Wasp Piñata
Wasps! Urgh! What are they good for? Absolutely nothing! Well, you’d think so by the amount of cursing they get
Read moreCheck out this massive fly
This weekend The Ranger discovered that the biggest fly in the UK was much bigger than he’d previously thought. Yes,
Read moreBuglife squished
If you’ve been following the story of small charity Buglife on this blog you will recall its legal challenge intended
Read moreBuglife case heard, but not decided
The invertebrate charity Buglife is moving to new offices in Peterborough, whilst in the midst of a legal tussle that
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