5 April 2023
From diving ants to jewel beetles, there are millions of insect species on Earth. A wonderful new guide from entomologist Steve Nicholls celebrates some of the smallest lives and details the strain they are under
23 March 2022
A true-crime series on IMDb TV takes a slightly too po-faced look into a theft from an invertebrate zoo where things weren't quite as they seemed
4 March 2020
Desert ants zigzag around the searing sand at high speed but they always manage to find their way home. A new book explains their amazing abilities
7 August 2019
A book full of fascinating facts about mosquitoes shows the powerful ways they shaped our history – and the huge toll they've taken on human life
31 July 2019
This week, listen to a founder of Out-of-Africa theory, read about our deadliest enemy, the mosquito, and explore the future of human and robot minds
28 November 2018
A real insider book explains why the saying busy as a bee has honeybees all wrong – and how studying them in the wild could be good news for them and us
