CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  We witnessed a titanic battle between an unfortunate bumblebee and a female garden spider  Araneus diadematus  that had spun her web on th...

Yarrow Achillea millefolium is a later summer wild flower that provides easily-accessed pollen and nectar for visiting insects, right up u...

At this time of year juvenile spiders begin to set up their snares in our greenhouse and this one wove its fine, tent-like web across the t...

I think it's one of the fundamental truths of natural history that you can find beauty in all living organisms - even a commonplac...

Last night we had our first hard frost, so ..... ..... the strings of pearls of autumn have given way to ..... ... th...