During our Myanmar expedition, the forest of Tamanthi provided many rich pickings and a number of the specimens I collected there are turning out to be undescribed. One day, near the end of our stay there, I was rooting around the stump of a felled tree near our camp and …
During our BBC/Smithsonian expedition to Myanmar our final destination was the fabled Tamanthi Wildlife Reserve, a 2,500 km2 forest in the north of the country. Home to tigers and elephants, this reserve also once supported Javan and Sumatran rhinoceros, both of which may have clung on into the 1980s, but …
[featured image] Surprisingly, there isn’t any government help for single mums in the insect world, so female digger wasps (hymenoptera: sphecidae) wear …
[featured image] What often bamboozles me about the natural world is the bizarre goings on just beneath the surface of something that …
[featured image] With their soft bodies and lack of wings, insect larvae are the number one food item for countless other animals. …
[featured image] There are a lot of people who are repulsed by insects, and for good reason, as a few of them, …
[featured image] In the right circumstances birds can evolve into giants. In the vast majority of cases they have done this on …
[featured image] Back in March, my second big book was published after many months of tapping away at my Remington typewriter and …