African Honey Bee drinking water at my wildlife pond We have two colonies of bees living on our smallholding and during summer my wild...

Torti It’s a late-Autumn afternoon and the day is balmy. It’s just after 3pm and in a couple of hours it will be cold, that nip that is ...

Two Speckled Mousebirds (Colius striatus) having a go at an apple I put out regularly for all the fruit-eating birds in my garden. A few yea...

Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. A Slug feeding on a little piece of mushro...

  A Giant African Snail (Lissachatina fulica) found in my garden. KwaZulu Natal is South Africa’s Texas, everything is bigger!  This is one ...

Precis octavia male or Gaudy Commodore in my garden. The wingspan of the Gaudy Commodore is 50-63 mm, and the colours of the males and femal...

My all-time favourite..  (17 Jan 1944 - 11 June2024 - RIP) I don't normally do obituaries, especially if they're not fauna or flora ...

  Don’t reach for the Doom! These are the most common wasps and all species build papery multi-celled nests of chewed wood pulp and saliva. ...

It’s sugar cane burning season in South Africa and here in KwaZulu Natal, it starts late-winter (July/August) and continues into early-summe...