Elsewhere on the blogs...

I'm waiting for my PCR reagents to thaw, so in the meantime here are a few links for your perusal:

The folks at NCSU insect blog make fun of we ant peoples' curatorial habits.

Bug Girl takes on some anti-pheromone paranoia in California.

Carl Zimmer on the awesomeness of cephalopod camouflage.

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While I was away the Photoshelter blog posted a recent interview I did with Allen Murabayashi, the company's CEO.  You can read it here, and I've also pasted it below the fold. I don't market my photos through an agency- my own sites work pretty well- but if I did, Photoshelter is one of the first…