A great quest ends, not in "answers", but questions . Ending this blog with a companionable greeting to all you questers everywher...

They are simple, slow – and when times are bad, not even green. These, just outside my door, were brown and hard as scabs, and as lively as ...

This spider on a printed surface is one of the wasp-preserved that I showed you here a few days ago. I placed it on the grey cover of The ...

If you, like me till a relative moment ago, think cryptogam means a leg with a secret, see The Australian National Botanic Gardens' fas...

"How immensely superior to our own pickling processes is that of the Wasp!" * "certain of fresh meat until their banquet is ...

"Blue banded bees are not at all aggressive" says the Australian Native Bee Research Centre . That is the first question asked abo...

Variation on a theme of Man Ray Self-portrait with installation The artist, B. Insignis , was unwilling or unable to be interviewed on the ...

from the Rainbow lorikeet ( Trichoglossus haematodus ) I remember when I was at Lilliput, the complexion of those diminutive people appear...

Great characters never die. They just reappear in different names — and once in a while, a character emerges who is two greats for the price...

"It looks like a nudibranch," he said. And though it's only a landlubber, it does have that outrageously foudroyant* appeal. S...