And today's 'Bug of the Day' is...

The Horntail or Wood Wasp - Urocerus gigas - which is about 6cm long (in my book that's BIG for a bug) and it doesn't half make a racket as it flies past your lughole with those great big double wings!

It's got black and yellow stripes and looks like it's got a stingy thing at the back, so it appears quite scary. But the pointy thing at the back is only to drill into conifers with, so it doesn't sting and is harmless - but still surprising when you're sat out at lunchtime tucking into your tuna sarnie (especially when you have to wait til you get back to the office to find out what it was!).

And the invention of the day is...

Brouge roller skates - ideal for the pinstriped man about town who needs to get to meetings quickly. Now just to sell my idea to Nike and retire to Monaco with my millions...