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What do spiders and velcro have in common? | spiderbytes
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This is a blog about spiders. Skip to primary content. About me / CV. This is a blog about spiders! What do spiders and velcro have in common? November 25, 2013. Note: all photographs (unless otherwise indicated) are used with permission from Sean McCann. This post was inspidered by a tweet from Chris Buddle:. I received an email from someone claiming a spider ‘screamed’. Has anyone heard spiders make sounds? Eg via spiracles perhaps? Chris Buddle (@CMBuddle) June 21, 2013. In French Guiana. A quick ...
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I had to go back for more Rosemary Grasshoppers! | lepscience
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A fine WordPress.com site. I had to go back for more Rosemary Grasshoppers! I’ve learned that whenever I have a really fantastic experience in the field, with a special critter, it is always worth going back for a second day to learn more. If you saw my original post. On the Rosemary Grasshopper (. You undoubtedly noticed that I was pretty excited about finally finding it- I’d been searching for months. But I only found one! I concentrated my time around stands of Florida Rosemary bushes (. This pair of ...
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Royal BC Museum insect curator position in danger, but you can make a difference | ESC-SEC Blog
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Become an ESC Blogger. Royal BC Museum insect curator position in danger, but you can make a difference. Royal BC Museum insect curator position in danger, but you can make a difference. January 6, 2015. Only half of an estimated 35, 000 insects in BC have been recorded. A curator is urgently needed to address research priorities for BC’s most diverse group of organisms. Photo by Miles Zhang. The following is a guest post by Professor Felix Sperling. Curatorial oversight leads to enhanced public engageme...
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The joys of insects at dawn | ESC-SEC Blog
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Become an ESC Blogger. The joys of insects at dawn. The joys of insects at dawn. July 9, 2015. When is the last time you got up at dawn to see some insects? Well let me tell you, it is an absolutely fabulous time to get out and see what is really happening in the world. Everyone knows that the dawn is the time for going out to see birds, but the birds are really just a proxy for the insects! They are out foraging their little feathers off in an effort to provide their chicks with tasty tasty bugs! The sp...
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Finding a rare robber fly in the Okanagan | ESC-SEC Blog
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Become an ESC Blogger. Finding a rare robber fly in the Okanagan. Finding a rare robber fly in the Okanagan. May 6, 2015. Vaseux Lake, a gorgeous body of water in a dry landscape. And I recently indulged in an almost unheard-of pleasure…A week long car camping trip to the Okanagan Valley! For those of you who don’t know, this is the area where the vast majority of BC wines originate (and tree fruit crops as well! With many of the flora shared with northern parts of the Great Basin Desert. We took these t...
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The Rippling Effect of Dictionary Deletions | Endless Forms Most Beautiful
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Publications & Recognition. Publications & Recognition. The Rippling Effect of Dictionary Deletions. On Mar 3, 2015 in Guest Posts. The Rippling Effect of Dictionary Deletions. Over the weekend, this Robert McFarlane piece. And the excerpt quoted below crossed my path no fewer than four times. That is beyond sad. RT @chiller. Cries for ever* MT @Jade Chandler. Words no longer in Jnr Oxford dictionary. pic.twitter.com/tuSgWKlFoR. Michaela Deas (@adamantine lady) February 28, 2015. I couldn’t quite discern...
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The Mad Hatterpillar – Bug Gwen
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Check out our Wish List! The insect educational program I run has a wish list for supplies we use regularly to care for our animals: Bug Barn Amazon Wish List. Please consider buying the Bug Barn some cages or crayons! That lets me use the savings to hire more undergraduates for hands on training. This is an Archive! This website is no longer open to comments or maintained; I've moved to a new home at Nature Geek. To save money I no longer block ads on this site or have a custom design. June 13, 2013.
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My life is now complete | The Smaller Majority by Piotr Naskrecki
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The Smaller Majority by Piotr Naskrecki. Creative Nature Photography Blog by Piotr Naskrecki. My life is now complete. A wingless form of zorapteran (. From Sapelo Island, GA. When I set off for a long weekend on Sapelo Island in Georgia to teach insect photography at the BugShot. Warm, humid, and festooned with Spanish moss, the oak forest of Sapelo Island, GA, is an ideal habitat for the Zoraptera. Even more interesting is the way males inseminate the females. All across the animal kingdom males te...
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Submit Images | BC Red-Tails
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Home of the BC Red-tailed Hawk Project. You can submit images in several ways. Linking to an Image Elsewhere on the Web. If you have an image in an online photo tool such as Flickr, Google Picasa, or zenfolio, you may be able to add a link to your photo as part of a comment to a page or post on the BC-Red Tails site. Linking to a Flickr Image. Submitting an Image via EMail. BC RedTail Image Submission Form (PDF Forms) [Not yet available]. BC RedTail Image Submission Form (Word 97-2003 Format). Stay on ro...
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Cheapskate Tuesday 4: 50 mm 1.8 | Ibycter
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Sean McCann: Research and CV. Cheapskate Tuesday 4: 50 mm 1.8. If you need a useful fast lens for a DSLR, why not consider the inexpensive 50 mm 1.8? Canon makes one, Nikon makes one, everyone makes one. They are cheap, they are fast and they are sharp. They are super versatile used as is, and can be excellent for closeups when used with extension tubes (I will cover this in an upcoming post). Normal on full frame and moderate telephoto on an APS-C, they are worth having around. And tagged 50 mm. I think...
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