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Mini-dramas

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 …

Termite-tormenting flies

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 …

Multi wasp

The more I find out about insect biology the more bamboozling it becomes. Case in point is the reproductive biology of some …

Insect declines

A review on insect declines from Biological Conservation. This is behind a paywall, but everyone should have access to it. Here’s the …

Cannibalistic weevils

This big, handsome weevil is a Rhinastus sp. from Peru and the specimen here is the only one I have seen in …

A wasp love story

Girl wasp meets boy wasp. Girl wasp gets it on with boy wasp. Boy wasp gives girl wasp a STD with a …

Legless spiders

      In Peru I dangled a UV light from an old bit of plank to attract nocturnal insects. On the …

Eggcellent

To date, just over 1 million species of insects have been described and many millions more are out there to be ‘discovered’ …

Hidden worlds

Here’s a new article on appreciating the fascinating, overlooked life that is right under our noses – PDF. This was written for …