As someone who’s worked with bumblebees in a science laboratory for 5 years, I’ve been asked just about every bee-related question imaginable. So, for world bee day, I thought I’d lay out some of […]
You’ve been given your first presentation assignment at university. Perhaps you have already done lots of presentations and are used to public speaking, or perhaps you have never spoken in front of a crowd […]
Central and South America is home to a number of psychotropic cacti, most of which share the active constituent mescaline. An important psychotropic cactus is the San Pedro Cacti, Echinopsis pachanoi, native to the Andes […]
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Slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) may sound disgusting, but by utilising its method of locomotion, we can plan out networks from highways to computer algorithms. Slime mould may not strike you as the kind of organism […]
The colour displays of birds are one of the many wonders of the natural world. These displays are primarily involved in courtship behaviours by messaging reproductive fitness to potential mates. One of the more impressive […]
Let’s talk about deadwood, in times gone by deadwood was often seen as a sign of poor forest management, something diseased to be gotten rid of. In actual fact, deadwood is an often overlooked haven […]
Having been known and written about since at least the sixteenth century, Lophophora williamsii is a cactus that lives in the Texan desert and is also native to South America. Within these regions, it’s fair […]
It’s a Strange Thing Being Jealous of a Goose It’s not a feeling I expected to have at this stage in my life, or at any stage in my life come to think of it. […]
Interest in the mandrake has grown recently, due to curiosity regarding organic plants, herbal healing, use in homoeopathy and folk medicine […]
The rapid expansion of urban environments is something to behold, and it may be causing adaptations in the natural world in unexpected ways. It is clear to see that in recent decades urban areas have […]
The Fly Agaric, one of the most iconic, magical and frequently drawn fungi has been used throughout the ages for its hallucinogenic properties […]
Poaching in combination with loss of habitat poses a huge threat to populations of both plants and animals particularly endangered species including the coast redwood. […]
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