In the late 1970s, I came across a colony of Wartbiter Crickets, Decticus verrucivorus, living on a rosebush at the end of my brother's garden, next to a mill stream that ran from the River Medway in East Peckham, Kent.

The females were around 2 inches (5cm) in bodylength (if you include the ...

That really is a big specimen of a beautiful butterfly. Mourning Cloaks, or Camberwell Beauties as their known in the UK, are only scarce migrants here in England. A few years ago, a friend of mine caught one in the east of England that had landed on the road surface. He simply picked it up. He was ...

That is superb, the way the blue "bleeds" into the red on the hindwing makes it look like a work of art

Johnny