Insects

The zombie maker

I’ll be honest, I’ve known about cordyceps for some time but for some reason hadn’t quite expected they might be findable in Ireland without being specialised about it. Anytime I idly search for information on them in Ireland I am bombarded with herbal supplement sites, all trying to sell me some in powdered form. I’ve…

All creatures buzzing and small

I remember once cycling along a bog road as a teenager when they still cut turf to one side of the road. Thinking about it I may even have been travelling home after visiting a friend when we both had spent the afternoon footing turf as summer work for her father. It was heading for…