Sussudio

When I was growing up Phil Collins was everywhere and then suddenly he wasn't. 

Why am I talking about an 70s and 80s musician in a blog predominantly about nature, well....every time I hear the word pseudoscorpion it makes me thing of the Collins track, Sussudio.

And that was what I was humming to myself as I walked around late one night last week with a torch looking at trees.

I was on the hunt for the biggest of the UK's pseudoscorpions, Dendrochernes cyrneus, aka the Large Tree-chernes. 

Apparently associated with ancient woodland, these certainly hadn't read the memo and were on a variety of tree species around a local golf course. They were easy to spot and when the light was on them, waved their hands in the air almost as if they just didn't care. Awsome.