CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary is about the remarkable range of small invertebrates that live under the flaking bark of old sycamor...

These tiny red acarine mites, just a couple of millimetres in diameter, seem to thrive in this hot weather, racing over sunlit surfaces an...

T oday's Guardian Country Diary is about this queen bumblebee Bombus pratorum that's infested with mites. The mites belong ...

This chaffinch with a swollen, deformed leg has been hanging around the bird table all day. For comparison, the bird below...

Harvestman spiders like this Mitopus morio turn up quite frequently in our garden at this time of year and quite a few of them carry t...

This weary bumblebee landed on our conservatory windowledge this afternoon and began grooming. While I was photographing it a tiny pink a...