Lovely, lovely leeches Now, there’s a phrase you don’t read every day. Henry and his Dad were cleaning out the pond pump and found a couple of freshwater leeches inside the filter. It’s hard to know quite what they are (even leech experts have trouble telling species apart) but we’ve finally settled on Dina lineata […]
Monthly Archives: May 2013
News
Lovely day for a swim water bug…
…or a skate Henry and his Dad spent the afternoon watching the frogs in their pond. These lovely amphibians (the common frog Rana temporaria) are, of course, vertebrates and so not really relevant on this blog. But they eat invertebrates, so they kind of count. And we also spotted at least one kind of aquatic […]
cute bugs
Even more legs!
What’s going on? OK, this is getting silly (and not a little embarrassing). After our centipede interloper yesterday, today we found a millipede on the bathroom floor. I’m now getting seriously concerned about the ventilation in there as both these species love moist conditions. Not a good sign. Anyway, this time we’ve got ourselves what […]
News
Cockroaches and Darwin
Cocky cockroaches In Metro today, a news snippet that US cockroaches have been observed learning to avoid poison bait and are apparently developing an averison to the taste of glucose which is added to the bait to disguise the taste and tempt them in. The trait seems to be inheritable and so we can look forward to […]
Reviews
A sting in the tale
A sting in the tale – Dave Goulson (pub Jonathan Cape) Book Review Fantastic – 288 hardback pages all about bumblebees! Dave Goulson is a life long fan of all things Bombus,being the driving force behind attempts to reintroduce the short-haired bumblebee Bombus subterraneus to Kent as well as the founder of the Bumblebee Conservation […]
