Eeek, oohh,urgghh, bleagh

Some spooky, curious and gruesome facts about the wildlife that visit our houses and gardens ...

• A group of crows is called a murder.
• House flies vomit and poo continuously.
• Dragonflies are the deadliest hunters in the animal kingdom.
• Harvestman can lose a leg in order to escape predators.
• A ladybird eats as many as 5,000 aphids in its lifetime.
• Mice and rats’ incisor teeth never stop growing.
• The fen raft spider can grow as big as a rat (largest spider in Britain).
• A cockroach can live for weeks without its head.
• Honey bees have hair on their eyeballs.
• Devil’s coach horse squirts a foul-smelling fluid from its abdomen when threatened. Beware – this beetle can also give a painful bite.
• Voodoo wasps turn caterpillars into their zombie bodyguards.(Glad they don’t live in UK)

Encourage more friendly fiends and sow some of our natural wildflowers.