Bee orchid
The bee orchid is a sneaky mimic - the flower’s velvety lip looks like a female bee. Males fly in to try to mate with it and end up pollinating the flower. Sadly, the right bee species doesn’t…
The bee orchid is a sneaky mimic - the flower’s velvety lip looks like a female bee. Males fly in to try to mate with it and end up pollinating the flower. Sadly, the right bee species doesn’t…
A pale member of the violet family sometimes known as ‘milk violet’, the fen violet has a delicate and unassuming appearance. A real specialist of the wetland habitat, this species has seen a…
A strikingly beautiful fish, it is not hard to see where the ‘red’ mullet gets its name from!
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This slim fish is usually found on gravelly parts of the seabed, close to shore, but can turn up in rockpools.
These large rocky shore fish look like they belong in deeper waters, but they are the find of the day for any rockpooler!
This funny-looking fish certainly won't be winning any beauty pageants, but it's a real contender for Father of the Year!
Horsehair worms are parasitic worms of the clade Nematoida alongside their sister taxa Nematoda, the roundworms. The most famous trait of certain species of horsehair worms is the ability to alter…