MetaFilter posts tagged with nature and entomology

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.

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)

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 ... '