CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  At first glance I thought this was a bee, resting on a gorse flower - then I noticed those club-tipped antennae, the un-beelike way it hel...

Low Burnhall is a Woodland Trust reserve just south of Durham city, with new tree planting to link up fragments of ancient woodland. It will...

I spent a couple of hours last week, on a warm, humid afternoon, exploring the undergrowth at Deepdale Nature Reserve in Barnard Castle. T...

Some recent garden insect visitors during the last week.  Thanks to Africa Gomez, author of the always fascinating  BugBlog  for IDing some ...

Twitter can be a wonderful resource. Within half an hour of posting a request for help in identifying this sawfly larva, it had been identi...

A few weeks ago, when I photographed these little hymenopterans - each about five millimetres long - I knew the pattern of events that was ...

This, above and below, is a male scorpion fly Panorpa communis , with the characteristic turned-up tail that gives it it's name - but...