MetaFilter posts tagged with entomology

Smells Like Spartacus

The Whelk — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:49:06 -0800

The Uprising Of The Ants: "Alexandra Achenbach and Susanne Foitzik from Ludwig Maximillians Universty in Munich found that some of the kidnapped workers don't bow to the whims of their new queen. Once they have matured, they start killing the pupae of their captors, destroying as many as two-thirds of the colony's brood. "

Termite Mounds

homunculus — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:11:34 -0800

Busy Bugs: Termite Mounds vs. the Burj Dubai Tower.

buggy barbarity

madamjujujive — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:58:51 -0800

Violent death in the insect world - grisly yet compelling macro photographs of bug-against-bug carnage.

The Crazy Raspberry Ants are coming! The Crazy Raspberry Ants are coming!

Kronos_to_Earth — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:18:01 -0800

“They’re the ant of all ants...and are moving about half a mile a year.” Crazy Raspberry Ants! (And you might want to check your computer....)

100,000,000 years

Kronos_to_Earth — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:34:09 -0800

The little windows in the walls of time amber provides aren't always open. Opaque amber is common and, until now, has hidden away many fossil creatures. 100,000,000 years.... via bbc There are links to a very pretty animation at the bottom of the ESRF page. They're big....it'll take 100,000,000 years to wait for it to play in the browser. It was quicker to save it and play it on the machine. It's a lot of space to take up on a drive, but the last part of the animation is pretty neat....

Bejeweled beauties

madamjujujive — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:40:52 -0800

Form and Pheromone - truly lovely beetle mosaics and insect art. (via recogedor) Previously: Living Jewels.

I was much happier before I knew these existed

madamjujujive — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:48:32 -0800

EEEK! (YouTube) [more]

Learning can be fun.

nickyskye — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:57:05 -0800

Science sites of all kinds for kids. Archeology. Entomology. Natural Symphony. Baseball in Space. Philosophy. Process or Content. Science songs. Physics songs, relativity. String theory. Science and Art.

Bug-eyed beauties

madamjujujive — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:25:03 -0800

Meet punk, Don, Kawaii, Satan's Little Helper, and the incredibly colorful cast of characters that populate photographer Igor Siwanowicz's world. (via Mira y Calla)

Think of lift, think of thrust, think of innovation without the benefit of an industrial policy.

DrJohnEvans — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:13:27 -0800

Work Well With Others or, how to power a matchstick plane with houseflies. Reports of success or failure are welcome.

Cultural Entomology

vacapinta — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:49:06 -0800

The Gold-Digging Ant-Lions of India is but one tale about insects and culture. Although, The Cultural Entomology Digest seems to have been out of circulation for a decade, you can still read about Japanese Crests based on Butterflies, Chinese Cricket Culture and hints of a Greek Cricket culture, Beetles as Religious Symbols or the Insects of MC Escher.

Ladies & Gentlemen! Brood X!

grabbingsand — Fri, 07 May 2004 08:54:08 -0800

The Brood is Back. No, not that Brood. This brood.

Bug Portraits

Feisty — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:24:27 -0800

Bug Portraits by Frank Phillips. ". . .I always keep in mind the goal of capturing the bug from an angle that we humans don't normally see...and I believe that it shows in my work."

Chinese cricket culture

madamjujujive — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 04:46:18 -0800

Chinese cricket culture encompasses a 2000 year history of both singing insects and fighting crickets. The tradition continues today, with some crickets selling at market for $1200. A visitor to Shanghai explains the allure of crickets as pets while others see their value as fearsome fighters. Cricket boxes and cages make interesting collectibles.

Arachnophobia

kayjay — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 19:24:25 -0800

The Itsy-Bitsy Spider. I was looking online to try and identify the freaking huge spiders I saw today (possibly wolf spiders), and I came across this hand spider identification chart. Slightly unnerving when the spiders randomly wiggle. Perhaps more so if you have a problem with spiders.

The Five-Year Honey Plan is proceeding apace, comrade.

Vidiot — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 08:29:06 -0800

If a young worker attempts to reproduce, she is spreadeagled by her fellows and kept immobilized for hours or even days. At the end of her sentence, the best she can hope for is a reduction in rank and loss of reproductive capability. Often she is mutilated or killed.

Fascinating article about police-state behavior in insects, complete with information on mutant anarchist worker bees, ant-led coups, and parasitic self-cloning bees. (via BoingBoing.)

Exotic Entomology and Fabulous Beasts

plep — Sat, 05 Jul 2003 06:42:39 -0800

Exotic Entomology. 'Provided for your delight are a small number of the world's butterflies and moths, taken from Dru Drury's three-volume monograph entitled Illustrations of Exotic Entomology.'
Related :- Schreber's Fabulous Beasts. 'In 1774 Johann Christian Dan Schreber authored a multivolume set of books entitled Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Focusing on mammals of the world, these books were lavishly illustrated with 755 hand-colored plates ... '

Cultural Entomology

plep — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:17:35 -0800

Cultural Entomology. The role of insects in human cultures from every continent :- religion, art, literature, entertainment, and as pets.
Related :- insect drawings used as teaching aids; insects as food.

With the beetles!

111 — Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:43:09 -0800

Some of them look like the spawn of Devil; others, however, resemble fruit-shaped fridge magnets or a beautiful jewel from Ancient Egypt, and some are so bizarre they simply defy any description. You can also think of them as natural Rorschach inkblots (consider this, this, this and this) or even Moore/Gibbons' Rorschach (compare). Those are some of Poul Beckmann's 128 hi-res, magnified, close-up studio pics of beetles, complete with binomial nomenclature and the critters' origins. via Clifford Pickover's weirdlog, RealityCarnival

Stick Insects Argue Against Evolution

rschram — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:47:22 -0800

The Twisted Path of Stick Insect Evolution Challenges the Theory of Evolution
Sort of... In an article on the cover of today's Nature, research on the evolution of stick insects is announced. But depending on the news source, this is either a strong challenge to the theory of evolution, or a mild revision. So who's right?

A Case of Curiousities

Stan Chin — Mon, 16 Dec 2002 07:58:16 -0800

A Case of Curiousities - Fine Art Taxidermy and Assemblage "Specializing in elegantly displayed antique, vintage and unusual contemporary taxidermy & entomological specimens for the collector of curiosa." The Walter Potter Gallery creeps the everloving shit out of me (it's.. a kitten.. with eight legs and two tails...), but you have to admit this floral arrangement of kittens is simply adorable.

Blake — Fri, 09 Aug 2002 11:16:28 -0800

ICKY!
Sometimes I think I made the right Career move. People complain about having to write papers, study, and do too much home work, but, how would you like to hold your hand in a cage full of mosquitoes to determine if they are ready to feed in order to get your degree (in entomology)?
Don't worry, the mosquitoes used in the tests are raised in captivity and do carry not any diseases suchas the West Nile Virus.
If you're like me, you asked yourself, What do entomologists do?

joeclark — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 03:29:13 -0800

Entomology and DEATH You've read the book. Now buy the T-shirt. Wear it and bug the d00dz in the weight room!

brownpau — Fri, 02 Nov 2001 03:22:12 -0800

Bug Dicks.