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Why Flies Don’t Like Zebra’s and Other Facts

The mystery of why zebra’s have stripes may have been solved. Researchers from Hungary and Sweden say the stripes keep away flying insects such as blood-sucking flies. A report, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, described how the stripe widths and polarization patterns of light reflected from zebra hides correlated with the patterns that [...]

Space Invaders

I loved yesterday’s blog about Craig Knight, an academic who discovered that office worker’s who personalised their working space were happier and more productive than those who worked in an unpersonalised space. However I also find it disconcerting when hot desking and having to gaze upon unfamiliar faces peeking from mouse mats and mugs, and [...]

How Personalised is Your Personal Office Space?

Stop what you’re doing right now and take a look at your desk. What can you see? Are you in a cubicle devoid of personal effects, or do you have a massive desk and a window overlooking rolling fields with more family photos, papers and inspiring quotes found on your everyday (or perhaps overseas!) travels [...]

Flies aloft

Barely awake and freezing, I had turned on the tap to run a bath in an effort to coax myself into facing the day. Horrified, I watched transfixed as dead flies poured out from both taps and started to fill the bath with a disgusting emulsion of water and insect bodies! I leapt back from [...]

Avoid Foreign Pests While Traveling

I’m not going to say everyone hates creepy crawly things – entomologists exist after all – but at least most of us do. We tend to deal with these creepy crawlies because at least we know what kind of pests we might expect to find in our own backyard. Traveling abroad, however, opens up a [...]