Tag Archives: Nature

Big Garden Birdwatch

Each year in the UK, at the end of January, people are encouraged to record the maximum number of each breed of bird they see in their garden in a 1-hour period. It’s called the Big Garden Birdwatch, and the … Continue reading

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Lazy ladybirds

Ladybirds are hiding behind a popular delusion. Continue reading

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Mistletoe

What to do about it, or with it. Continue reading

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Muddled millipede

Not as simple as left, right, left, right . . . Continue reading

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Origins

Does a butterfly wonder where it came from? Continue reading

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Wot, no cuckoo?

Should I feel glad or sad? Continue reading

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Clerk of the Weather

Must be getting on a bit now – is he losing his touch? Continue reading

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Run, rabbit!

Still good advice! Continue reading

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Willie the worm

A sartorial lesson. Young Willie the worm Liked to wriggle and squirm As he burrowed his way through the dirt. But he wondered one day, In a worm sort of way, What life would be like in a shirt. “A … Continue reading

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Slow Joe

Be careful what you wish for! Continue reading

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Theory and practice

An urban myth exploded Continue reading

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Quack knack

Well, that’s what it seems like . . . Continue reading

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The way of a worm

A word for a worm . . . Continue reading

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Growing organic

Why pick on me? Continue reading

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Oak and willow

Useful stuff… Continue reading

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Plan of atttack

At bug HQ Continue reading

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Hug a tree

It deserves it! Continue reading

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Ant antics

Up the workers! Continue reading

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Ice and fire

A message from below Continue reading

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Spring song

Life must go on… Continue reading

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A lousy trick

Quantum woodlice Continue reading

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Chelsea gold

A great British tradition Continue reading

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Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do

Methane in the air… Continue reading

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Butterflies

How do they flutter by? Continue reading

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On the trail of a snail

What drove it up the wall? Continue reading

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The price of sex appeal

Natural selection is tough Continue reading

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Sunday lunch

Eaten alive Continue reading

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Hay fever

The bees’ knees Continue reading

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Seeds of destruction

A solution to all your gardening problems Continue reading

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The highway toad

The dangers of rushing into sex Continue reading

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To those left behind

It’s tough when the race goes to the swift Continue reading

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Metamorphosis

A change of life Continue reading

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A spider, an ant and a fly

Three sticky ends Continue reading

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Genesis

Which came first? And does it matter? Continue reading

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Lilies

Should they get a life? Continue reading

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Weather or not

A recipe for meteorological chaos? Continue reading

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Exceptions

Not all things are bright and beautiful Continue reading

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Earthquakes have no morals

The backside of life’s rich tapestry Continue reading

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The Yanbaru-kuina

The last group of this now-flightless bird lives in the remote highland forests of the Japanese island of Okinawa, fossil records of its successive extinction in islands of the Ryukyu chain to the south having been found in cave sediments. … Continue reading

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