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Dragons and damsels
Martin Aaron
The height of summer is an excellent time of year for spotting dragonflies and damselflies. Seeing these small, colourful insects darting around rivers and ponds, it's hard to imagine that in prehistoric times, some of them would have had wingspans of up to 70cm in length - double the length o...
Grasshoppers and crickets
Martin Aaron
We had an email into the wales.nature@bbc.co.uk inbox this morning from our regular contributor Mike Davies, who asked us whether this insect is a grasshopper or a cricket. (By the way, I'm James McLaren, covering for our usual blogger Gull) Well, insects are as confusing, if not more ...
