[featured image] Solitary bees and wasps have all sorts of really interesting behaviours, but one that I’ve only recently witnessed is what the bees in the photos below are doing. Towards dusk when they’re frantic daily activities are drawing to a close the males of many species seek out places …
[featured image] Parasitic platyhelminthes, particularly the flukes, have the most complex life cycles of any animal, involving two or more hosts and an elaborate sequence of developmental stages that allows each egg laid by the adult to spawn huge numbers of infective juveniles via asexual reproduction. The photo and video …
[featured image] Last year in northern Spain we crashed our hire car, but after exercising our rudimentary knowledge of the Spanish language …
[featured image] Tiger beetles come in all shapes and sizes, but on the whole they’re rather elegant, fine-limbed animals. With this said, …
[featured image] [This post is adapted from a book I’ve just finished, which will be published sometime next year by Thames and …
[featured image] Although the alder leaf beetle (see last post) can swell to rather substantial proportions in an effort to produce lots …
[featured image] Leaf beetles (chrysomelids), the often gaudy insects you see sitting on various plants in the summer have only a few …
[featured image] In the last post, we saw a compliant little rotifer getting on with the pressing activity of collecting food. In …
[featured image] Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a man of magnificent hair and considerable talent, was the pioneer of microscopy. Using a device he …
[featured image] Well, it’s not much of a dragon, but it does live in mud. These animals, correctly known as kinorhynchs, are …