Beyond the Human Eye

I found this little insect, which is less than  two millimetres long, in a bag of walnuts imported from France. It's a psocid, commonly...

One of the best ways to learn more about food is to grow some of the fruit and vegetables from exotic fresh produce that you can buy in sup...

All summer, small containers of various kinds in our garden have collected rainwater and detritus - and each of these microcosms has develop...

Fungus gnats that emerge in swarms from soil in plant pots have become the bane of many gardeners' lives. If you grow plants in commerc...

  I recently discovered that the orchid on my desk is infested with these tiny scale insects Coccus hesperidium . Each one looks li...

Our unusually wet summer has provided plenty of opportunities for breeding mosquitoes, with water butts and containers retaining poo...

Plants primarily secrete nectar as an energy source to tempt pollinators to visit their flowers, but th...

By the time that summer arrives the foliage of most trees shows signs of insect attack, but these little eruptions on the surface of an...

When aphids infest plants they tend to find a good spot to feed and then stay in one place, where they'll insert their stylets into t...