{"id":115987,"date":"2020-05-01T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-one-lone-earwig-stands-her-ground-in-the-logpile\/"},"modified":"2020-05-01T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T05:04:58","slug":"country-diary-one-lone-earwig-stands-her-ground-in-the-logpile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-one-lone-earwig-stands-her-ground-in-the-logpile\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: one lone earwig stands her ground in the logpile"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLangstone, Hampshire: She guards a clutch of 40 eggs with a maternal care that is unusual among insectsHidden away in a damp, shady corner at the foot of my fence, a half-metre-high heap of logs and leaves has rotted down to rich humus, the few remaining tree stumps and branches pitted with insect boreholes.As I turn over a partially buried tunnel of bark, woodlice scatter, a cluster of garden and brown-lipped snails shrink back into their banded shells, and a common cryptops centipede scuttles for cover. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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