Coconut Crab
Meet the largest terrestrial arthropod, the coconut crab. They can live up to 60 years old, and grow to sizes of a new born human child!...
Bugs are saving the day, again.
Bugs are saving the day, again. Mealworms are the larval stage of the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, a type of darkling beetle. Many...
Spiders & Peppermint
I get called quite often being asked how people can repel spiders from their homes with little or no management from people, eg ‘I don’t...
Photosynthesizing sea slug
Let’s talk about Animals and Plants, from a very young age we are told that plants can photosynthesis their food from the suns energy,...
Beetles Release Anti-Aphrodisiac, To Repel Mating Attempts After Birth
After a female burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, eggs hatch, the beetle will go through a temporary period of infertility. When...
Vampire Moths
When the word vampirism is mentioned it congers up thoughts of Mosquitos, Bats, Mites or even The vampire finch of the Galapagos Islands,...
Behavioural metamorphosis of Locusts
Desert Locusts have been described as a having a natural ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ – style behavioural change. Going from anti-social locusts to...
Water skiing beetle
This beetle can skim across the surface of water so fast that it has been said to be akin to water skiing. Meet Galerucella nymphaeae, a...
Parectatosoma hystrix
This amazing animal is a Perectatosoma hystrix, a type of nocturnal stick insect native to Madagascar. While most stick insects avoid...
The Parasitic Worm That Turns Snails Into Disco Zombies
The worm in question is Leucochloridium, and it’s a parasitic worm that invades a snail’s eyestalks, where it pulsates to imitate a...
