The obsession that natural history documentaries have with large animals (mostly mammals) means that most most of us forget the dramas that take place all around us thousands of times a day. The sequence of images below were taken just after I’d bought my first proper macro lens. I was …
The nests of social insects are chock-full of all sorts of delicious resources and a magnet for freeloaders. Not only is there lots to eat, such as the brood of the nest makers and general nest detritus, but these elaborate insect cities are a stable, sheltered refuge from the outside …
The more I find out about insect biology the more bamboozling it becomes. Case in point is the reproductive biology of some …
A review on insect declines from Biological Conservation. This is behind a paywall, but everyone should have access to it. Here’s the …
This big, handsome weevil is a Rhinastus sp. from Peru and the specimen here is the only one I have seen in …
Girl wasp meets boy wasp. Girl wasp gets it on with boy wasp. Boy wasp gives girl wasp a STD with a …
The video above is more Mesolens magic. Here, we’re looking through the tip of the pseudoscorpion’s pedipalp to see the venom …
In Peru I dangled a UV light from an old bit of plank to attract nocturnal insects. On the …
To date, just over 1 million species of insects have been described and many millions more are out there to be ‘discovered’ …
Here’s a new article on appreciating the fascinating, overlooked life that is right under our noses – PDF. This was written for …