CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

C ellar spiders Pholcus phalangioides look fragile, with those long, slender legs, but they are formidable hunters. This is what happened w...

  There are some fascinating spiders around at this time of the year. This little beauty is a zebra spider, that lives in my greenhouse. It ...

  The cellar spider Pholcus phalangioides is a welcome guest in our house . In summer it's a very effective fly killerand it also catch...

The rain might be lashing down outside but there's still plenty of wildlife to track down much closer to home. Unless your house is her...

If you have an oldish house with some dark, damp corners - like ours - the chances are that you'll discover sooner or later that yo...