The Mexican Red Knee lives on the Pacific Coast of Mexico in dry forest and desert habitats
Whe threatened they will not hisitate to flick hairs from their abdomen using their back legs. We call these ‘urticating Hairs’ and they can cause itchiness, swelling respiratory issues if inhaled.
Female Red Knee tarantulas can live to by as [...]
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10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 11th 2025
Filed under Holidays, Stratford-upon-Avon 2025
Green Bean Stick Insect
Green Bean stick insects are native to the Caribbean including the islands of Grenada, St Vincent and Guadeloupe.
Both males and females have vestigial wings. This means that their evolutionary ancestors had wings and were capable of flight. However, the ability to fly became less useful and so their wings diminished over many generations until they [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Apr 4th 2025
We arrived in the breakfast room to find that the advertised continental breakfast was exactly as advertised, unlike our previous hotel where several components of the continental breakfast were missing. I couldn’t miss out on the opportunity even though the vegetarian breakfast was also tempting. I wasn’t disappointed.
After breakfast, as planned, we had a chilly [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 27th 2025
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Charles Addams
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 23rd 2025
Have fun spotting our resident iguanas! Prudence & Bennie are green iguanas, originating from South America. Prudence was donated to the Butterfly Farm about 8 years ago, and Bennie was donated in 2020. They like to hide up in the trees and bask in the warmth on top of the heaters where they like to [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 10th 2023
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Science & Nature, Stratford-upon-Avon 2022
Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm
Over 30 years ago Clive Farrell had a dream to create an attraction that would introduce visitors to the wonderment of butterflies. This dream became a reality in July 1985 when Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm opened its gates to the public.
The Stratford Butterfly Farm has been welcoming visitors to its tropical butterfly paradise for over three [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 10th 2023
