Tag: insects

Moderation: Gisela Steinhauer The butterfly gets lonely. (IMAGO / Gottfried Czepluch) There are 33,500 insect species in Germany. Many species are threatened, including butterfly...

Summer is the season for many beautiful things. Gardening, playing outside, barbecuing in the garden and just enjoying long northwest summer days. ...

A well-known ritual begins at my home around 6 p.m. My Burmese cats, Claude and Truffle, are groping downstairs to dinner, pacing the...

I awoke to the loud screeching of the laughing and herring gulls, interrupted by the cries of the Mediterranean seagulls. ...

It's that time of year again when flying ants are everywhere. The winged insects swarm across the sky throughout July and August, mainly because...

The phenomenon of 'Flying Ant Day' occurs when a queen leaves a nest with a flock of males - and can cause chaos in...

Even ants don't like a rainy day (Image: Getty)UK summer time can be responsible for sunny days as well as miserable stormy conditions. We...

Photo credit: Gavin Tyte via Unsplash. The rejection of human exceptionalism turns the world upside down and people's brains upside down. We have seen...

1.Bedford, G. O. Biology and ecology of the Phasmatodea. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 23, 125–149 (1978).2.Umbers, K. D. L. et al. Deimatism: a neglected component...

Looking like a cross between a scorpion and a spider, spraying acid for protection and eating cockroaches for dinner - and now they have...