CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

We found this delightful little snail, just 16mm. long, on  a dead tree in Thorsgill woods in Teesdale recently.   ...

One of the stranger sights of autumn is the way in which snails seem to have a compulsion to climb to the top of hogweed Heracleum sphondyl...

Last Friday saw the launch of the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Cold-Blooded and Spineless project. Over the next five y...

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