CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

This fox moth caterpillar Macrothylacia rubi crossed our path when we were out walking on Birkside Fell near Blanchland in Northumberland t...

A few days ago my youngest son and his partner called to say he'd found a drinker moth caterpillar but by the time I went to collect ...

Back at the beginning of June orange tip butterflies were laying eggs on Jack-by-the-hedge (aka garlic mustard, aka hedge garlic) in our g...

I found this extremely hairy caterpillar this afternoon when I was picking raspberries. My thanks to Skev , who identified it as a buff ...

It was what my granny used to call "a clearing-up" shower.  The ferocity of the rain hammering on the car roof drowned out our...

Sometimes the best way to watch wildlife is to just sit still and let it come to you, and in our garden at the moment the best place to sit...

We get a steady stream of people bringing things in jam-jars for identification in Biol. Sciences at Durham University and yesterday a gen...

At first glance I really did think that this was a small piece of twig resting in the apple leaf's surface until .... .........