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Grey Dawn (SA/2022)     "O melancholy bird on a winter's day ..."     As I've said before on this blog, those of a philos...

Leiothrix lutea     I.    In a country in which insect numbers have fallen a staggering 65% in the last twenty years and other factors, such...

Martin White inspecting a homemade butterfly breeding pod Photo: Fabio de Paola / The Guardian (2020)     Patrick Barkham's piece in Th...

Project DragonflEye: this to-scale model shows  the insect-controlling backpack with integrated  energy, guidance, and navigation syst...

Illustration of a wolf in George Shaw's   Musei Leveriani (1729) I. This is post 1500: a number which means nothing to me, b...

Micromys minutus ... Wendy Fail, for her successful attempt to reintroduce harvest mice to Northumberland. As a doctoral student...

  Who's a pretty boy then?  Photo by Tim Blackburn / PA I. Originally from Africa, the bright green ring-necked parakeet ...

Cover design by Neil Lang (Picador, 2018) I. Author Isabella Tree and her husband, the conservationist Charlie Burrell, are founde...

A very pretty mint moth (native to the UK) Photo by Mark Parsons / Butterfly Conservation Everyone loves butterflies: but not m...