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Favouring the scorpion fly
Wednesday 14th December 2022
Male scorpion fly, Panorpa communis perched on a green leaf with it’s tail curled up © Matt Cole “What’s your favourite insect?” I usually hate…
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Hover flies, leaf-cutter bees and ‘no-see-ums’
Wednesday 14th December 2022
In August last year LE contacted me from Shropshire about an insect invasion of her car port. There were seeming thousands of insects, which despite…
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Ladybird Days
Wednesday 14th December 2022
Description © Credit Helen Roy is a research ecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Her research focuses on the effects of environmental change…
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Insects: the unlikely food and feed of the future?
Thursday 23rd June 2016
From giant water bugs in Thailand through to Chapulines in Mexico there is already a wealth of insects that are eaten around the world. The…
