On 31 October, London’s Halloween lore meets the living world under our feet. Witches’ brews once called for Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), a moon-blessed herb still sprouting along city paths, while Nutcrock night tested lovers’ fates by the hearth. Step outside and the season’s real magic stirs: invertebrates thrive as mammals slow. Lift leaf litter to find scurrying ground beetles, pill woodlice curling into perfect spheres, sleek centipedes and shadowy millipedes, plus spiders, harvestmen and dancing craneflies. Look closer—tiny pseudoscorpions brandish miniature pincers, and tardigrades lumber like microscopic bears on moss. Blackbirds, gulls and rooks know this feast well, tossing leaves and probing turf for leatherjackets. Explore rotting bark, stones and soft soil; an entire Halloween city is awake and busy.
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