[featured image] Insects underpin all terrestrial habitats, but it’s often difficult to know exactly what things they need to thrive. Often, the habitats these animals need to survive are completely overlooked or demolished by us. Back in the day this wasn’t really a problem as there was lots of habitat …
[featured image] Elasmotherium was an enigmatic beast of the Eurasian steppe. It’s a long time dead that’s for sure, but tales of this creature or something decidedly like it dwell in the folk memory of the tribes who inhabit central Asia and beyond into the wastes of Siberia. This massive …
[featured image] The tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia are the oldest in the world. While the dense forests of South America and …
[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] Limbs are such endlessly useful appendages that it seems odd that so many terrestrial vertebrates should have lost them. More …
[featured image] With their soft bodies and lack of wings, insect larvae are the number one food item for countless other animals. …
[featured image] Agriculture enabled humans to forsake the unforgiving ways of hunter-gathering in favour of a much more salubrious lifestyle. The cultivation …
[featured image] There’s a small, wingless parasitic wasp (Methoca ichneumonides) that preys on a green-tiger larva by waiting for it to attack …
[featured image] There are a lot of people who are repulsed by insects, and for good reason, as a few of them, …