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A Kente stole made from blue woven fabric, featuring a repeating chevron design in shiny red, gold, and green along the central band. On either side, there is a geometric key meander pattern in the ...

The snout or rostrum of a female Acorn weevil, Curculio glandium, is longer than that of the male. She uses it to chew holes in green acorns into which she deposits one or more eggs using a ...

The male Methocha articulata may be found during the late spring and summer, flying around flowers and seeking a mate on the sandy heaths and coastal dunes in southern areas of the UK. However, the ...

With a body length of 25mm, the Hornet robberfly, Asius crabroniformis , is one of the largest flies in the U.K.. Although robber flies are fierce predators of other insects, ironically the black-and ...

Following habitat loss and changes in grazing management, the Large Blue butterfly, Maculinea arion , was declared extinct in the UK in 1979. It has recently been successfully reintroduced into a ...

The family Psychodidae consists of small flies with a multitude of common names depending on appearance or their location! Because their wing veins and bodies are covered by hair-like scales they may ...