ALAN SIMPSON offers a few pointers on dealing with the ongoing, Trump-led destruction of the norms of a rules-based international order established post-WWII
ANYBODY concerned about our countryside and the creatures that live in it will be particularly worried our native amphibians. Britain doesn’t have too many frogs, toads and newts and it certainly can’t afford to lose any more.
The common frog (Rana temporaria) lays spawn by March in most parts of the country. The large masses of jelly and black eggs are easy to spot.
Toads and newts have eggs too but are harder to find in smaller ribbons or even folded neatly into the leaves of aquatic plants.
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ALEX DITTRICH hitches a ride on a jaw-dropping tour of the parasite world
MAT COWARD rises over such semantics to offer step by step, fool-proof cultivating tips



