CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

 For the second year in succession we have ants nesting in one of the garden waste recycling bins, which happens to be close to a cardoon pl...

 Blue tits and long-tailed tits often seem hyperactive, constantly searching for food. A moth larva would be a good meal, but they also eat ...

 Every year in late spring the blackcurrant bushes in my garden are plagued by aphids that multiply unnoticed under the leaves, until they b...

We found these ants 'farming' aphids on a ragwort plant when we were out walking in the Tyne valley near Wylam this morning. ...

I found this large hoverfly larva in Teesdale yesterday and watched it feeding on aphids. A gruesome spectacle - it caught them tail-first ...

Recently there has been a lively exchange of comments in the Guardian on a piece by George Monbiot that extols the virtues of native trees ...

The tops of the broad beans in our garden are infested with aphids that are breeding at a phenomenal ra...

This black ant, with its lethal-looking jaws outstretched, isn't about to eat the aphid - it's farming it. Th...

If your garden is as plagued by greenfly as mine is, then this will be a welcome sight - a hoverfly larva tucking into an aphid. It's...