Not much time to blog today. Instead, some links:
- Roberto Keller has wonderfully detailed SEMs of the clypeal pegs of amblyoponine ants.
- Douglas Adams' Jeremy Lee's view of Australia is spot on, except for the bit about snakes, which are worse than Adams Lee thinks. (h/t John Wilkins)
- The New Scientist lists their most stunning images of 2008. (via Ainsley Seago, whose beetle cuticle comes in at #5)
- Christopher Taylor ponders the evolution of insect metamorphosis.
- Igor Siwanowicz is, in my eyes, the finest insect portrait photographer working today. Check out an ad campaign of his (h/t Bug Dreams), and a photo of the master at work.
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Alas, it's not Adams, but Jeremy Lee...
Alex
That view of Australia is a little bit over the top.
The Wombat does not eat worm or grubs more like roots and grass. Wombat are also know as "Bulldozer of the bush" ones the set them up they will go through fences under grow etc their borrows are petty big too. Yes they can make mess of car just like Kangaroos.
Snakes have not seem any this year only road kills, may be they are effected by the drought like everything else.
Sheep they are on the way out no money in them now.
Ants well there several types that the sting will have you sing & dancing all day.
Thanks for the link! I honestly don't know how they chose those images; mine's pretty plain.
Also, I loved the Australia bit. I can never tell whether Australians are putting me on ("sure, we eat kangaroo all the time;" "you gotta watch out for eyeball leeches" etc), but now that my house has started to fill with hunstman spiders I have decided to take them mostly at their word.