Rise of the killer hornets

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

It’s an amazing experience to put on a bee suit and see a hive,” says Andrew Whitehouse, head of operations for the invertebrate conservation group, Buglife. “There’s suddenly thousands and thousands

From the pleasures of harvesting your own one-of-a-kind honey to the meditative calm that methodical hive-management brings, beekeeping has much to offer, finds Jane Wheatley

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Nature needs time to adapt to changing conditions,

Neither arachnid nor bird, the tarantula hawk is a large wasp (there are over 130 known species) that gets its confusing name from a fearsome habit of preying on tarantulas and other large spiders to