CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  I founnd this little insect, about one centimeter long, on my car windscreen when I parked near Waskerley beck at Wolsingham in Weardale y...

  After a summer drought, followed by a mild and wet September and early October, it's turning out to be a very good autumn for fungal f...

  Sweet violets  Viola odorata  produce two types of flower - the familiar scented kind that are amongst the first wild flowers to appear in...

  This tiny rove (staphylinid) beetle, about 5mm. long, found its way into the house, probably on washing dried on the washing line. But it ...

  I remember adding a few wood blewits  Lepista nuda  to a compost heap at this spot in the garden many years ago. Their network of hyphae s...