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Richard Daniel chairs the interactive environmental programme in which he and his guests deal with listeners' questions and concerns.
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|  | | | | "Home Planet, the programme that tackles your queries about the world we inhabit and our interaction with it. From astronomy to geology, biology to environmental science. You set the agenda and our panel of scientists and conservationists come up with the answers."
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Professor Philip Stott
Please Identify this strange creature
This picture was sent in by a listener asking for help in identifying this large insect they saw on their wood pile.
[Image copyright: David Calvert]
It is a female Greater Wood Wasp or Greater Horntail Wasp. You can .
It is a member of the .
Cosmic rays and particles from outer space
A listener wanted to know more about cosmic rays and high energy particles that reach the Earth from outer space.
Two Nasa web pages on and cosmic rays.
An article from the CERN Courier on some of the research done into .
An article about the proposed link between .
Head Lice
Home Planet's resident entomologist Richard Jones asked for your stories and experiences in dealing with head lice. The programme discussed these in greater depth but here are some links to head lice biology.
from the National Pediculosis Association.
An article linking .
NHS Direct web pages on .
Richard Jones has kindly included a picture of a head louse and a rather good story of how he came to photograph it.
"Here is a picture of one of my family's headlice. I had to rescue it from near oblivion in a sink full of cold water after the family bonding/screaming session one evening after bath. I put it into a small glass tube with moist tissue and kept it in my trouser pocket all morning until it recovered. I then needed some hair on which to photograph it. Luckily, one of my daughters had had her hair cut the day before and there were some locks still blowing about in the flower bed outside the kitchen door where we had chucked them. I put the louse (one of two I'd saved) onto the hair and it ran up and down surprisingly quickly. It never let go though. It checked every strand from end to end, but never let go."
[Image copyright: Richard Jones]
Where did the water on Planet Earth come from?
The Earth's surface is 70% oceans yet the planet started life as a ball of molten rock, an unsuitable situation for liquid water. So, asked a listener, where did the water come from?
A description of .
An article detailing some of .
A news report from NASA discussing one the latest m.
Cabbage White Butterflys, do they have any natural predators?
This year has been a good year for cabbage white butterflies, and a bad one for brassica gardeners. A listener had heard a suggestion that they do not have any natural predators and so wanted to know whether this was true or not.
A web page with considerable detail including many pictures of the .
Advice on dealing with from the Royal Horticultural Society.
Further advice on dealing with .
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