Millipedes and centipedes – what’s the difference?

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

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 ...

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

Remember, remember, watch wildlife in November,

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich