When spiders go fishing

THERE’S A LARGE SPIDER IN THE cupboard. What do you do? Do you panic and flee the scene? Or do you stride forward confidently, cup and paper in hand, ready to save the day? Do you bask in the adoratio

In Sydney, Australia, sulfur-crested cockatoos have a reputation for raiding skips and bins and being able to figure out a way past almost any lock people might use to try and keep them out. Now, they

The spider-tailed horned viper contains the raw ingredients of two of the world’s most common phobias: arachnophobia (fear of spiders) and ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). The only way it could possibl

Treat yourself to a few late-summer sessions targeting the margins before the weather begins to turn – it’s later than you think...

I’M CURRENTLY READING a wonderful book called Local, by British explorer Alastair Humphreys. After years of trekking across deserts, mountains and jungles he decides to buy a map of his local area ‘so

One of the highest profile crop markings was created on 10 July at Sturminster Marshall in Dorset, near Cerne Abbas and its giant: a massive spider motif made from overlapping circles on land belongin