Bev has compiled a link list of useful webpages - keys of all kinds - for identifying all kinds of animals. The list should be immediately useful for our upcoming Blogger Bioblitz, but it's a good page to bookmark for future reference too. Thanks Bev!
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On September 2nd this year go out somewhere: into your backyard, or the woods, or the bottom of the sea, and turn a rock or two or three. Take pictures of what you find underneath. Perhaps you'll find earthworms, or pillbugs, or beetles. Or a starfish. Maybe even a snake.
To compare this evening's fractal with nature, take a walk. Look beyond the scaling patterns in the autumn leaves, the branching trees, the billowing clouds, and up into the darkness of space. If the time is right, you'll see a familiar shape, similar to the following image.
Predaceous Diving Beetle.