Beyond the Human Eye

The outer layer of cells on a plant's surface - the epidermis - is the first line of defence against herbivores, pests and diseases so i...

I've been struggling to capture a decent image of a gastrotrich for quite a while, but this afternoon this obliging example ( Chaetonot...

Three weeks of warm weather had left my pond covered with large slimy masses of 'blanket weed' or 'pond scum', the filament...

This colony of organisms is Synura , a member of the Golden or Chrysophyte algae, that I found in a water sample in the shallows of a reed...

I've posted pictures of rotifers before ( here ) but they are such amazing animals that there's always room for another - especially...

For hay fever sufferers, this can be one of the most miserable times of the year, thanks to grasses and trees that produce vast quantities...

This tiny orange rugby ball is the egg of an orange-tip butterfly   Anthocharis cardamines , attached to the flower stalk (pedicel) of a he...

At first glance it might seem that the elaborate mechanism that dandelions Taraxacum officinale use for presenting pollen to visiting ins...

These remarkable eyes belong to a male St. Mark's fly Bibio marci - which has not one pair of compound eyes, but two. This is the blac...

You can crudely divide orchids into two groups: ground orchids, rooted in the soil - like Pleione species , for example - and epiphytic orc...