Which would win in a race, a centipede or a millipede?

Britain is a country mercifully bereft of threatening fauna–or so you might believe. John Lewis-Stempel provides a miscellany of our otherwise benign land’s more fearsome critters

Worms are natural earth movers PHOTOS: GAP Stefan ...

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

It was soft, rubbery and lubricious, a humongous earthworm to the untrained eye. I was pretty happy with my find until the joy of the moment was momentarily ruined when the ‘worm’ turned. It opened it

For a little over six months, you could glimpse the future from the window of the Big Issue’s London offices. Sandwiched between an estate management agency and a clothes shop, Yum Bug – the capital’s

Stefan Buczacki Professor Buczacki is a horticultural expert, ...