clusterflock » insects http://www.clusterflock.org a site about everything Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/owlet-caterpillars-of-eastern-north-america.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/owlet-caterpillars-of-eastern-north-america.html#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:16:25 +0000 India http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81401 My same friend Susan who brought us the critically acclaimed Omega Institute in Your Pants, 2010 edition today supplied the following list, from the book Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America by David L. Wagner, Dale F. Schweitzer, J. Bolling Sullivan, and Richard C. Reardon:

Sordid Snout
The Herald
Feeble Grass Moth
Dead-wood Borer
The Betrothed
The Little Wife
Serene Underwing
The Consort
Dejected Underwing
Inconsolable Underwing
Tearful Underwing
Sad Underwing
The Penitent
Sappho Underwing
Youthful Underwing
Darling Underwing
The Sweetheart
Joined Underwing
Semirelict Underwing
Once-Married Underwing
Girlfriend Underwing
Connubial Underwing
Delilah Underwing
Steely Underwing
Wonderful Underwing
Sweet Underwing
Indomitable Melipotis
Merry Melipotis
False Heather Drasteria
Confused Zale
Once-charred Punkie
Blurry-patched Nola
Beautiful Looper
Sandstorm Tumbler
Tricolored Angel
The Laugher
Fingered Dagger
Fragile Dagger
Splendid Dagger
Afflicted Dagger
Hesitant Dagger
Night-Wandering Dagger
The Hebrew
Cadbury’s Mystique
Cherry Agate
Overlooked Paint
Asteroid Paint
Scribbled Sallow
Turbulent Phosphila
Boreal Sprawler
Shivering Pinion
Sloping Sallow
Roadside Sallow
Straw-eyed Tentmaker
Tawny Tentmaker
Smoky Tentmaker
Adorable Sallow
Subdued Quaker
Cunning Woodling
Stormy Arches
Explicit Groundcat
Disparaged Groundcat
Cynical Groundcat

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/owlet-caterpillars-of-eastern-north-america.html/feed 7 At the height of the Battle of Alcaniz on May 23, 1809, as he was about to give the order for a desperate charge by French troops into the center of the Spanish line, Col. P.F.M.A. Dejean happened to glance down. http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/11/at-the-height-of-the-battle-of-alcaniz-on-may-23-1809-as-he-was-about-to-give-the-order-for-a-desperate-charge-by-french-troops-into-the-center-of-the-spanish-line-col-p-f-m-a-dejean-happened-to.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/11/at-the-height-of-the-battle-of-alcaniz-on-may-23-1809-as-he-was-about-to-give-the-order-for-a-desperate-charge-by-french-troops-into-the-center-of-the-spanish-line-col-p-f-m-a-dejean-happened-to.html#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:53:25 +0000 Luke Neff http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=77536

The air around him was thick with gunpowder and blood, but on a flower beside a stream, he saw something unusual. A beetle. Species unknown. He immediately dismounted, collected it, and pinned the specimen to the cork he had glued inside his helmet.

The first lines of The Species Seekers by Richard Conniff, which came out yesterday.

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Lucy linked to this beautiful collection of twenty insect songs from Twitter where she asked which one is your favorite. Except she spelled favorite with with a u because she’s European.

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/08/photo-out-of-context-81.html/feed 7 the world’s loudest dick http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/06/the-worlds-loudest-dick.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/06/the-worlds-loudest-dick.html#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:42:38 +0000 Deron Bauman http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=70943

Males of the Micronecta scholtzi species serenade their sweethearts with a three-part song made by rubbing their genitalia against their abdomens, but it remains a mystery how or why the creatures make such a loud mating call.

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Update:

Gretchen:

It’s a mantisfly, family Mantispidae. It’s a member of the order Neuroptera . . . and not a praying mantis.

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Nitidulidae

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