Beyond the Human Eye

  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...

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...