Beyond the Human Eye

Aphids , also known as greenfly, are extremely successful sap sucking insects with a phenomenal rate of reproduction, which makes them majo...

If you have ever gone away on holiday and forgot that you left some cheese in the cheese dish, then .... ..... this will be a fami...

Eating green potatoes that have been stored for too long in bright light is a big mistake. They can make you very ill - not becaus...

This lethal-looking weapon, just a couple of millimetres long, is the defensive weaponry deployed by a prickly pear cactus called Opunt...

A combination of unusually warm spring weather and spawning frogs that stirred up the mud and so released a lot of of nutrients into th...

A A vascular bundle in a transverse section of a grass leaf, stained with the fluorochromes Calcofluor M2R (blue fluorescence = cel...

This is a transverse section of the conceptacle of a brown seaweed Fucus sp., commonly known as saw wrack. It has been stai...

There was a time – before the advent of synthetic fibres based on plastics and petrochemicals - when the wealth ...

It's too cold in winter to spend a lot of time paddling around in rock pools but you can always take a few samples of seaweed home o...

Some seeds need to be sown while others - like wild oat Avena fatua - sow themselves. This is...