Wasps are solitary insects: the adults are assassins and the young feast on the bodies of the living. Sound gruesome? That’s because it is.
Seahorses are some of the ocean’s most beloved creatures but they remain a mystery – here are nine things you probably don’t know about them.
Last spring I visited the Pennines. It is as bleak a landscape as you’ll find anywhere in Britain, until you arrive at a place called
The first swallows have made landfall in the UK, fanning out over the greening landscape. The early arrivals, generally males, are a streak of electric
Ash dieback – a fatal disease of Britain’s native ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior) – is one of the worst tree disease epidemics the UK has
Driven perhaps by envy at the attention that climate change is getting, and ambition to set up a great new intergovernmental body that can fly
Chirp, chirp! To make this familiar summer sound, the male cricket holds his nerve and “stridulates” – rubbing his back legs together in order to
Can a forest be fascist? This may seem a facetious question, but it is one that Italians have been discussing of late due to a
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