[featured image] Among the huge diversity of insect life there are some bewildering complex life cycles, but there are few that can compete with the trigonalid wasps for the seemingly haphazard way they ensure their genes are passed to the next generation. In most cases, a female parasitoid wasp deposits …
[featured image] A while ago I posted this. No one managed to correctly guess the identity of this mystery creature, so in this post I’m letting the copepod out of the bag. Apart from wanting to reveal the identity of this creature I also need to share the story of …
[featured image] I’ve been spell-bound by the thought of Borneo for many years. In my addled mind the very mention of the …
[featured image] Insects underpin all terrestrial habitats, but it’s often difficult to know exactly what things they need to thrive. Often, the …
[featured image] Elasmotherium was an enigmatic beast of the Eurasian steppe. It’s a long time dead that’s for sure, but tales of …
[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. …