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Sooty whiskers, a wolf in the undergrowth and wasps' uninvited guests
A beautifully camouflaged silver Y moth Autographa gamma, resting head-down in the grass. It seems likely that this exquisite moth, a native of continental Europe, might have been wafted in on the same warm, southerly winds that brought the...
Ox-eye daisies, that "Cast forth Beams of Brightness"
St. Brandon’s, at Brancepeth, County Durham, is a shining example of the way in which an ancient churchyard can be managed for the benefit of people and native wild flowers. The south side of the churchyard is a wild flower meadow, with mow...
A plant to dye for, somersaulting beetles, four-eyed flies, and mowers - the lawn daisy's friend
There is a story (probably apocryphal) that when the eminent evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane was asked by a clergyman what he had learned about the mind of the Creator from his studies of natural history he replied to the effect that...
Medicine for unicorns, a dung courtship arena, a friendly giant oak and an ephemeral existence
Spignel aka baldmoney Meum athemanticum, an uncommon, low-growing, native member of the carrot family, mainly confined to the more mountainous parts of north Wales, northern England and Scotland. It’s notable for its beautiful, finely divid...
Invertebrate armadillos, clouds of pollen and the zebra in my greenhouse
A pill millipede Glomeris marginata trundling up a steep slope on a footpath through Low Burnhall woods near Durham city last week. It doesn’t look like the more elongated millipedes that are familiar to gardeners but, like all its kin, it...
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Botanist, naturalist, Guardian Country Diarist. Profile image courtesy Omi Gates @omigates
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