Imagine peering into a still pond at dusk, the surface glassy and undisturbed—except for a few tiny, wriggling creatures ...

The eastern forktail (Ischnura verticalis) is one of the most common damselflies here. Damselflies and dragonflies have aquatic larvae called nymphs or naiads (nymph for dragonfly, left). These larvae ...

An outbreak often leads to the death of all larvae in a pond, and there is evidence that outbreaks are becoming more frequent due to climate change. Between 2021 and 2023, the authors studied the ...

Salamanders, like frogs and toads, are amphibians. This means they lead "double lives" spending their early existence as aquatic larvae which undergo metamorphosis, transforming into land-based ...

My earliest memories of the natural world are of the creatures that lived in our garden pond at my family home at Givendale, ...