The Ranger's Blog

The thoughts and writings of The Virtual Ranger, since 1995 the host and mascot of Naturenet, the UK's most popular independent environmental website; along with interjections from his real-life alter ego, Matthew Chatfield, and others. Featuring not only Naturenet and countryside related stuff, but, as on Naturenet, plenty of other material - more or less at random - that takes The Ranger's fancy. But you can be confident that soon enough he'll be rather sarcastic.

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1. Check out this massive wasp (141850 views) 
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4. Why do spiders come indoors in the autumn? (69423 views) 
5. Spider vs. Bee... BBC vs. National Geographic  (61908 views) 
6. Scientist: spitting worms have really weird sex (61116 views) 
7. What is the purpose of wasps? (55235 views) 
8. Gents, something in your pocket kills trees - and it's not a copper nail. (44124 views) 
9. Wart seems to be the problem? The very strange papillomavirus (37611 views) 
10. A fungus that looks like Britney Spears? (33790 views) 

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Naturenet popular links

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The Ranger's other blog favourites

• Architectures of Control
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• Boing Boing - a directory of wonderful things
• Bug Girl's Blog
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