Fantastic video!

Revolting....

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

The ultimate "k selected" species they have to survive to 150 just to reproduce. Any exploitation is likely to be unsustainable. Have we learned nothing from hunting whales, elephants and rhinos. Species late to mature and slow to reproduce cannot survive hunting/culling

🧪 The industrial wastewater can contain substances including PFAS and pharmaceuticals. These chemicals enter our waterways and contaminate sewage sludge, which is spread on our land and used to grow our food. 🤢 Yet there is no independent regulator overseeing individual trade-effluent consents. 😕

It just gets worse and worse. The Water Cowboys are pouring vast amounts of industrial effluent into sewage works. They get paid, and all the pollutants go straight through the system and out into waterways. Meanwhile, the illegal sewage overflows continue. It's a criminal scam!

I'm giving my Secret World of the Undergrowth talk at Bishopsteignton Community Hall TQ14 9QL Devon 3 pm Fri 9 October & at The Bird Hide White Lady Road Plymstock PL9 9GE w3w rested.slot.frock 6.30 pm Sat 10 October 2026 all welcome. Hummingbird Hawk moths insect eating fungi & zombie disco snails!

I'm pretty sure the ants wouldn't mark them in that way.

Great experiment! Garden spiders will eat back aphids if they have to, and there's not much else around. The reaction you observed indicates that the aphids were distasteful. They can absorb chemicals from the plants they feed on and Dahlias do have some unpleasant compounds in their tissues.

If by 'Golden Age' you mean despoiling the White House with tacky stick-on decorations and erecting a vulgar 22-foot golden statue of himself - yes, you may be correct....

This twisted and magnificent holly tree is what you get if you give them many decades to grow in an ancient woodland. Slow growing but worth the wait.

I do love a bit of dreich.....

Shakespeare (& Sir Ian Mckellen) vs Far Right Xenophobia