She said spiders entered homes during the autumn months "looking for love". "At this time of year, we're likely to be seeing ...

I stayed for two nights in the one-bedroom Agar tree-house and spent much of my time enjoying its sleek wooden deck, tucked at the heart of the semi-circular lodge. Although the kitchen was on the ...

Woodlice are usually found in damp areas such as under containers, in compost heaps or beneath piles of plant debris. Also known as pill bugs and slaters, woodlice are around 15mm long with an outer ...

The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it administers death by Silly String. In the leaf litter of tropical and ...

WHEN examining some specimens of Armadillidium vulgare (Latr.), kindly sent to me by Dr. H. W. Howard of Cambridge from the University Farm, I noticed that a female specimen of the variety "Black type ...

“No spider will actively attack us, it will just defend its eggs if anything and the only one which could give a slightly nasty bite might be the woodlouse spider which lives under rocks and logs but ...

A bizarre-looking bright blue woodlouse has been photographed in the wild – but the picture is actually much sadder than one might first realise. The image of the critter was shared on Reddit this ...

Lots of adults dislike woodlice. Some are physically revolted by them. But this distaste is cultural rather than innate since most small children are well-disposed towards woodlice and happy to handle ...

Darren Maskell, a familiar face on the open mic scene in London and the South East in the late 2000s and early 2010s, has died at the age of 37. His mother Suzanne confirmed the news to Chortle, ...

Insects, ice and fungi were amongst the subjects coming under the close scrutiny of the lens in Tenby Camera Club’s recent internal contest. Held in memory of a former member, the Gary Jenkins macro ...