Do you assume, as I did, that flies do not feel pain, that you can kill them mercilessly and chuck their carcasses out of the window when they come into your home? Are you happy to kill flies? To rid yourself of that irritating buzzing …
In the UK there is a rather strange statute called the Weeds Act 1959. It lists the injurious weeds of the UK which include: Common ragwort – Senecio jacobaea Broad-leaved dock – Rumex obtusifolius Curled dock – Rumex crispus Creeping thistle – Cirsium arvense Spear …
The experts have told us that giant millipedes as long as a car weighing 50 kg roamed across Great Britain 326 million years ago, which at that time was at the equator. We are familiar with the modern-day millipede which are small insects. I am …
There is a grisly video on the Internet described as: “Bizarre ‘alien worms’ forms wriggling mass in Thailand”. They are, in fact, fungus gnat larvae joined together working as a team; quite impressive actually but horrible to look at. I’m going to speculate and say …
The weather is warm, my back garden is inviting so I decided to cut my toenails on my back lawn. In any case it is brighter outside so I can see more clearly. All-in-all it makes sense to cut those damned toenails outside, on the …
Yes, extraordinary though it is, 2 bees work as a team to open a bottle of Fanta. I think the lid was not screwed on but they got the screw top off and chucked it on the ground! 🙂 It has finally happened: insects are …
There is cut-throat competition among beekeepers in France because France’s 60,000 professional and amateur beekeepers are unable to keep up with demand for their product as there is a 35% annual death rate of bees due to pesticides, global warming and Asian hornets. The cut-throat …
I have never seen this before. It’s an interesting reminder that insects as well as people make a positive effort to go to higher ground to escape flooding. In this instance it almost seems that the spiders are on a par with humans in the …
Neonicotinoids used in pesticides makes bees sleep in the day and it makes them go out at night when flowers are not open to be pollinated. Bees are a major and critical pollinator. The numbers have declined significantly. The reason? Habitat loss, climate change, greater …