Up, Up and Away!

As you may have guessed already, I’m a self-confessed arachnophobe; however, for me, the size of the spider does count – the smaller the better!  So, I’d say I can definitely cope with what we affectionately term “money spiders” – some of the tiniest of their kind that seem to have a penchant for landingContinue reading “Up, Up and Away!”

The Flight of the Bumblebee

Bumblebees have long posed a tricky problem to scientists.  Why would these little buzzers have the boffins puzzled you might wonder? Well, the answer is that they had the academics baffled by appearing to defy the laws of physics. It was declared that bumblebees should not be able to fly!  The size and weight ofContinue reading “The Flight of the Bumblebee”