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For people who like the more "maligned" creatures, such as insects, reptiles, amphibians, sea life etc.
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Just don't go to Australia!
Jul 4
How do flying snakes fly?
Jun 30
The first of my two new snakes has arrived, this is an albino T. Radix, her soon to arrive friend will be a T. Sertalis Infernalis. These used to be really common in the UK pet trade, but sadly they have fallen out of favour and people prefer rat ...
Jun 24
helping the Monarchs -
Jun 16
'Extinct' for a hundred years again!
Jun 12
from Mike Strick, in UK.
Every year in early summer, the stag beetles emerge to find mates. They have spent the first five to seven years of their life underground as larvae and now have just a few short weeks to live as adults.
Every year I'm ...
Jun 3
Now we have dragons! Kinda.
Jun 3
Are locusts good or bad for the garden?
Jun 2
Weird source and badly written but interesting -
May 31
After the rediscovery of the Blue Bee in FL last week, more on the rare solitary North American bees.
May 28
A shoddy picture of my new bioactive terrarium. It is currently home to tropical isopods, dwarf earthworms and springtails. Eventually garter snakes will join the gang!
May 24
Sea-skater insects -
May 22
How did meat-eating plants evolve?
May 21
The amazing Tailorbird, (and if your mother was a seamstress and tidy-minded it will all look very familiar.)
May 17
more snippets of good news -
May 13
Rare good news!
May 12
Murdering Hornets
May 2
Sunshine, early morning.
Apr 24
Looking around the local area and found this.
Kind of hard to tell but I see these almost every week, when I talk about eating lunch near Elk these are them. If you back out you will see a marker for the shop north of this about a...
Apr 17
Today I moved some old rotted short logs that stood on end, and found many of these enormous grubs, about the size of thumb. I suspect them to be some stage in the life of the large death's head (delta-shape) moths we get here but I don't really ...
Apr 13
I'm not sure what this is, perhaps the pelvis of a cat, small dog or deer faun, goat, we don't have any other large enough fauna? found in my garden today. It's like a face, or face and arms at several angles.
Apr 12
Oviparous and Viviparous at once!
Apr 11
Not the fault of wild animals but of us reducing the Wilds.
Mar 21
Siri got a habitat upgrade today! She awoke (from her winter snooze) too big for her old tank (fitst photo / she was trying to get out). So far, she approves of the new one (second picture), though its not too big...
Anyone else got snakes waking ...
Mar 15
Bioluminescence!
Feb 28
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