CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  We found this larva of a pale tussock moth crawling along the parapet of Prebends bridge, across the river Wear, in Durham. Everything abo...

  We've been composting garden and kitchen vegetable waste in 'Dalek' bins like this for decades, but this year was the first ti...

  The two commonest craneflies - Tipula oleracea and T. paludosa - are dull-coloured insects but this female orange-sided comb-horn Ctenop...

 I often whizz past, at 60 mph, motorway embankments that are covered with flowering ox-eye daisies, but it's not so often that I get a ...

  These anxious curlews accompanied me on part of a walk in the Deerness valley, County Durham last week. They must have recently hatched yo...