Jumping spider watching you,
jumping spider watching you (again),
mantis eating a fly,
mantis eating a fly (again),
mantis watching you,
mantis watching you (again),
ladybird hatching,
flies having sex,
crane flies having sex,
shepherd,
WTF is that,
WTF is that (again), and a really
cute baby hamster. Photographs by
David Jobi
posted by elgilito
on Apr 20, 2013 -
40 comments
Paul "Mozchops" Phippen has been working as a concept artist and designer for major companies in the video-game and media industries since 1996. Two years ago, he made an intensely vivid graphic novel set in an imaginary world of insects and flora, with a story in rhymes that are somewhere between Seuss and Carroll. You can see four galleries of illustrations from
Salsa Invertebraxa on Behance (
one,
two,
three,
four), and read
some of the poetry on io9. You can also see some more of his art on
Deviant Art.
posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 19, 2013 -
2 comments
The Great Hog-Eating Confederacy Early Southerners ate a rather limited and unvarying diet. At table the famished guest seldom found more than bacon, corn pone, and coffee sweetened with molasses. Pioneering sociologist Harriet Martineau complained that “little else than pork, under all manner of disguises” sustained her during her visit to the American SouthFor the most part, slaves observed the same diet as poor white farmers. Though many kept gardens, and thus supplemented their rations of pork and corn with a wide variety of vegetables, they had otherwise little opportunity to augment their diet.. Another traveler griped that that he had “never fallen in with any cooking so villainous.” A steady assault of “rusty salt pork, boiled or fried … and musty corn meal dodgers” brought his stomach to surrender. Rarely did “a vegetable of any description” make it on his plate, and “no milk, butter, eggs, or the semblance of a condiment” did he once see.
Christine Baumgarthuber is
a writer for
The New Inquiry and runs
the blog The Austerity Kitchen.
[more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns
on Mar 22, 2013 -
58 comments
The Anternet is always up. On the surface, ants and the Internet don't seem to have much in common. But two Stanford researchers have discovered that a species of harvester ants determine how many foragers to send out of the nest in much the same way that Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for the transfer of data. [more inside]
posted by jquinby
on Aug 29, 2012 -
19 comments
Wonderland, by
Nadav Bagim, is a lovely macro-photo series which turns a kitchen counter into a miniature fantasy-land using household objects, and various critters as models.
posted by quin
on Dec 24, 2011 -
7 comments
(Sunday night arthropod terror filter): YouTube user
memutic has uploaded several dozen high-quality backyard video recordings of exotic insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and millipedes native to Central America, Southeast Asia, and the US.
[more inside]
posted by Nomyte
on Jun 26, 2011 -
20 comments
Freaky Friday Flash Fun, Flatting Flies:
Insectonator is a top-down shooter. Well, "shooter" is a stretch; this is more of "stomp, drop things, overkill with naplam" attack on pretty much every homeowner's nightmare: a bunch of crawly bugs in the dark that avoid the flashlight.
The bugs don't shoot back, so the game is just an endurance test by the player. And there are two awards for actually sticking around long enough. Weapons include a rock, your boot, various guns (including sniper rifles), rocket launchers, an anvil, naplam, and finally, a nuclear weapon.
Via the ever excellent
Jay Is Games.
posted by Old'n'Busted
on Apr 1, 2011 -
7 comments
Steampunk Insects. "Tom Hardwidge’s Arthrobots are robotic insects — steampunk creations made from upcycled gears, nuts, bolts… and bullets!"
posted by Phire
on Mar 9, 2011 -
15 comments
Amazing World of Insect-Wing Color Discovered "A closer look at seemingly drab, transparent insect wings has revealed realms of previously unappreciated color, visible to the naked eye yet overlooked for centuries. Until now, the wing colors of many flies and wasps were dismissed as random iridescence. But they may be as distinctive and marvelous as the much-studied, much-celebrated wings of butterflies and beetles." The
paper (pdf) was published in PNAS.
posted by dhruva
on Jan 5, 2011 -
10 comments
Insect Sushi Shoichi Uchiyama makes sushi of a
different kind.
Academic studies have shown insects are rich in nutrition and many are even more nutritionally balanced than meat or fish... In addition, they grow much faster and require less feed than animals and fish, and leftover vegetables are enough to farm many kinds of bugs. They grow in small spaces and don't compete with human beings over food... Recipes inside.
(via Scribal Terror) [more inside]
posted by caddis
on Sep 29, 2009 -
91 comments
The Hellstrom Chronicle "The film posits a theory any science fiction buff would glom onto in a second—that dominion over the world will come down to a battle between two classes of Kingdom Animalia, Man and insects, and that insects will win."
Watch on youtube, 11 parts.
posted by dhruva
on Dec 29, 2008 -
35 comments
