It happens to be the season when mosquitoes and flies go wild, but it is true that there are not as many flies as there are mosquitoes today. This has a lot to do with our improved sanitation today, after all, flies need to lay their eggs on manure pits and rotting food, while many rural toilets have now been converted to squatting, and the shorter disposal cycle for waste has greatly reduced their hatching.

In the world of insects, a variety of successful strategies have been developed to avoid dying from the cold

If you're in a vast expanse of desert, unless you can find water straight away, you'll be lucky to meet a camel. And it's not just the traditional image of the 'desert boat' that makes this animal so interesting - as a herbivore, they are almost never known to have natural predators in nature.