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I was lucky enough to catch up with a Spiky yellow woodlouse (Pseudolaureola atlantica) whilst on St Helena. This crazy isopod looks more like a toy than a real species,...

25/06/2014

Political developments in the last week make it more likely that the UK will start growing GM crops within a few years.  UK researchers are currently trialling a GM wheat...

20/06/2014

Oxford University led scientific review of neonicotinoid science opens with a bold advertisement for the effective ability of the neonics to prevent crop yield loss.  However, the evidence presented to...

13/06/2014

For my first few days on St Helena, visiting the Bugs on the Brink project, the weather has been a bit wet and rainy, which is a bit damper than expected...

09/06/2014

Most of our countryside is closely managed and controlled to deliver a range of objectives, this is hard work and sometimes intensive.  Potentially conflicting objectives of producing food, maintaining income...

06/06/2014

A hardworking and, in my opinion, very cute animal spotted whilst I’ve been on Ascension Island is the Land crab (Johngarthia lagostoma), which spends much of its time inland in...

05/06/2014

The EU makes important decisions that affect bugs across Europe and beyond, will the new, rather different, crop of UK MEPs be good at promoting the interests of bugs? This...

30/05/2014

Famous for being Napoleon Bonaparte’s final place of exile, St Helena is also known as the ‘Galapagos of the South Atlantic’, due to its unique wildlife.  As the wildlife there...

23/05/2014