Blogs about Natural world

If you think you have seen me, please report to APHA Back in July 2023, Colorado beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) were confirmed in a potato field in Kent following laboratory diagnosis of samples taken by the …

All around the country, new beekeepers - fresh from attending a How to start beekeeping winter course - will be buying their first nuc, eagerly watching a bait hive for scout bees, or precariously teetering …

The first thing that made me want to visit the Azores was a computer game, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Indy and his friend visit the islands to try to track someone down …

Léelo en español Years ago, I grew Stylidium debile in California. After a long period of not growing any carnivorous plants, a friend gave me this division, which just began to flower. Yes, yes, this …

It’s been an odd year so far for us moth-ers. There was an odd burst of numbers and diversity back in mid-March but that was followed by some very lean lighting-ups in April when it …

Apodoceras / Stonebarrow Fossils Apoderoceras is a wonderful example of sexual dimorphism within ammonites as the macroconch (female) shell grew to diameters in excess of 40 cm – many times larger than the diameters of …

A place 'so secure that all the forces in Britain shall not find him out.' But could we find it?

“For more than two decades now I’ve lived alongside the pelicans of the Prespa lakes in northern Greece. These birds are—for so many, residents and visitors alike—simply an astonishing and seamless part of being here. …

Nature is all about life - and death.As lovers of the natural world, we delight in the abundant, thriving, humming life all around us, which is at no time of the year more apparent than …

Prunus americana – wild plum, with erratic honeybee, Apis mellifera, Bobolink Trail, Boulder, Colorado, May, 2024. To see comments on this post click below:

My first trip to Scotland was when I was sixteen. At the end of the summer term I was asked not to return to Lancing College, my boarding school, as I was deemed ineducable. My …

Here at SV-POW!, we love bifurcated cervical ribs. Those of Turiasaurus are one of the autapomorphies proposed by Royo-Torres et al. (2006:figure 1K). Their diagnosis of the new genus included “accessory process projecting caudodorsally from …

Maybe I should be a little embarrassed, but this spring I found myself waiting eagerly for the release of Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department. If I let myself be embarrassed by my …

Observation Point Hill, Medicine Bow NF, Wyoming. Left to right: Stan Henson, John Bustos (knees) Chris Brasmer, Kenny Pettine. Cooking breakfast in the Medicine Bow NF. From left:Chris Brasmer, Kenny Pettine, Scoutmaster Wayne Parsons, R. …

Written by Cathy Robinson, nature and travel writer, for Naturehood at Earthwatch Europe Have you been lucky enough to spot a pair of copper-coloured eyes peeping out from a hidey hole this spring? If you …

Skull Bliss carved skulls I was sent this by a friend. Interesting, not cheap. A wonder I haven’t seen that with deer and moose.

Among the most poorly known of all squamate groups are the dibamids… Caption: a dibamid exemplar. Note the smooth-scaled, shiny overall look, the essentially eyeless head, and the pale patches on the snout and scattered …