Jumping spiders! Salticidae is the largest family of spiders, containing approximately 5,500-6,000 species, which accounts for around 13% of all spiders. These species are divided into 600+ genera, are typically small in size and famed for their incredible jumping abilities. Along with their impressive number of species and awesome acrobatics, they also possess some of … More Salticidae – The Charismatic Spiders
If you follow any of my social media accounts you have probably noticed that I have started uploading microscope pictures. Recently, I acquired a fantastic Brunel MX7T microscope for my birthday, it comes with a rotating turret with 20x and 40x magnification (although this can be increased through additional eyepieces). My primary reason for wanting … More Microscope Madness
As you have probably realised, despite my best effort, I don’t always get round to publishing a post every week. Especially as I’m currently writing my 3rd year dissertation. However, I have recently created a Zoology Notes twitter on which I tend to post daily. And I have also converted my Instagram into a zoology … More Zoology Notes elsewhere
First of all, apologies for the lack of posts recently, had a manic few weeks at uni. But I am now back for Easter and whilst I have a lot of work to do, the posts should be more regular. Now, on with today’s topic. Last Sunday, two friends and I decided to take a … More Saucer bug – a new species for Gwynedd
Sticking with the recurring theme of brilliant British beasts, this week the mighty stag beetle (Lucanus cervus). Being a beetle they are of course an insect and belong to the order Coleoptera (the beetles) which is actually the largest of the insect orders, containing approximately 360,000 species, with more being discovered all the time. There … More The Mighty Stag Beetle
Firstly, I’d like to apologise for this post being a couple of days late, uni work has been pretty crazy. But as I am currently sitting in the lab and have a couple of hours to kill before I can start recording the results of my dissertation experiments (maybe I’ll do a post on them … More Sparrowhawk vs Starling
False Widows everywhere! RUN! … No, no Stop! I am only joking, however this is the view of a great many people around the UK and this is often fueled by the media. Spring is not far around the corner, which means it won’t be long before people start venturing outside again and so it … More Steatoda stigma
Gulls have adapted brilliantly to the urban landscape and the presence of humans, so much so that they’re seen virtually everywhere. This has resulted to them, in a way, becoming taken for granted, as they’re often seen as pests, an annoyance and as something of an urban irritant. However, I would have to greatly disagree … More Not so guilty Gulls
Yep, I know, Sparrowhawk is in the headline but I won’t be getting straight in to that, just needed a catchy title. Click bait? Maybe… but hey 😉 Anyway, last Saturday my friend Sean and I went for a spot of early morning bird watching at a local nature reserve called Spinnies. I’d never heard … More Sparrowhawk at Spinnies
Hello, it has been a very long time, i know. So here is just a quick post about my newer tarantula to, hopefully, get me back into writing posts. I have been keeping a Pumpkin patch tarantula (Hapalopus sp) for a couple of years now (I’ll hopefully do a post on her at some point) … More Cyriocosmus sellatus
