Mega migration

Seeing vast numbers of insects cross from Asia to Europe has been a revelation for scientists

New species discovery

What is the Lygodactylus fritzi?

Boy’s find leads to new study

Garden discovery reveals a link between oak trees, gall wasps and ants

Collective nouns

A murmuration of starlings

Lost & Found

Swordfish, Isle of Man

A star is born

Some of Britain’s weirdest fungi erupt into our consciousness this month. Collared earthstars bide their time under the leaf litter in the form of vast numbers of fungal threads called hyphae. Now they burst forth as onion-shaped fruiting bodies that soon split, the skin peeling back to expose a taut central dome. The slightest touch […]

Berry tasty

In winter, ivy provides a highly nutritious meal for birds

News: Up – Down

Harrier fledglings Natural England has announced that nearly 120 rare hen harrier chicks have fledged across uplands in northern England this summer, the highest number for more than a century. However, as one of the most persecuted birds of prey in the UK, the RSPB added that the risk of these young birds being illegally […]

Female of the species

Lucy Cooke on the primates using brains not brawn to survive

No stone unturned

The Arctic visitor at home on ‘messy’ British beaches