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Insects, ice and fungi were amongst the subjects coming under the close scrutiny of the lens in Tenby Camera Club’s recent internal contest.

The UKs largest fly has been spotted buzzing through a Ceredigion SSI.

Project Noah is a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

Project Noah is a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

The robber fly looks similar to the common bumblebee, and can even go so far as to mimic the bee's sounds.

Cottonwood Borer (Plectrodera scalator) Photograph by Dan Winters Texas is crawling with insects—literally. It’s not just that an estimated 37,000 different species can be found here (although we do have more than any other state). It’s the frequency with which we’ve seen them—many of them, at least—during the past year. What’s behind our entomological explosion? The rain has a lot to do with it. Texas weather has been particularly wet of late, a fact that is music to the antenna...

Robber Fly – Jabal Ibrahim Whilst birding the Jabal Ibrahim area of the western mountains I found a Robber Fly on the ground. I have seen Robber Fly in Saudi Arabia previously but not this particular type. The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies and have 7000 described species. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx. The name "robber flies" reflects their notoriously aggressive predatory habits...