This Angle Shades moth,  Phlogophora meticulosa , caught the attention of my 8 yr old while it rested on dark moss. Angle Shades are very ...

The flying season of the Common Blue butterfly,  Polyommatus icarus , is coming to an end. The adult generation will die off in the next ...

An adult male Common False Widow spider,  Steatoda bipunctata , barely half a cm in size, scuttled across the kitchen floor yesterday, mo...

Before today, I had only seen a Comma butterfly, Polygonia c-album , this year, but today I saw four. Two of them nectared on a large flow...

I bet it is hard to find a higher leg density than in a freshly born ball of spiderlings. These 30 or so Pholcus phalangioides spiderling...