Western Honey Bee The Tireless Worker
The Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) is one of the most useful pollinators on land. With 25,000 species or more worldwide & abundant anecdotal reports of native bee decline due…
Green Shield Bug as a Garden Guest
One rather ubiquitous insect that we are sure you have all seen in your gardens or parks is the Green Shield Bug, Palomena prasina. Its vivid green skin and shield-like…
The Gentle Giant Crane Fly
Identified as one of the largest true flies, Tipula maxima (Giant Crane fly) is a large and lanky insect that superficially resemble mosquitoes due to their long legs. Of course,…
Fuzzy Mimic Dark-Edged Bee-Fly
The Dark-edged Bee-fly Bombylius major is one of those great insects that easily conjures up the sense where has it been on our clutches before because its bee look works…
Red Soldier Beetle – Fire Flies
The Red Soldier Beetle, Rhagonycha fulva is a very distinctive beetle and one that you are probably familiar with seeing in your garden, meadows or woodlands. Best defined by its…
The Travelling Bug Next Door The German Ladybug A Colorful Gardener’s Ally
Ladybugs, also called Marienkäfer in German language are pretty insects with bright colours and significant ones for environment. For the Germans, these miniature insects carry symbolic weight like no other:…
Spiny dogfish
The spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) is a small-sized species of the shark inhabiting temperate waters worldwide. They are distinguished by their high, sharp spines on each of two dorsal fins…
Bluntnose sixgill shark
A Prehistoric Predator The bluntnose sixgill is a huge-bodied, big-headed shark with 6 gill slits placed on each side of its head. The Titanoboa is an ambush predator, and it…
Small-spotted catshark
The Small-spotted Catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) is a benthic shark that occurs in the sublittoral, shallow waters of southern and western European seas as well as some parts around north Africa.…
Starry smooth-hound
AboutStar Rating:FishBaseEOLGemfishStarry Smooth-houndimage from Wikipedia CommonsThe Starry smooth-hound is a houind shark with the star-like markings on its skin which results in this very descriptive name of the species.Mustelus asteriasImage…