The Daily Entomologist
Monday, February 25, 2013
Strangest of the Strange
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There are a number of Animalia that reach the highest level of human-perceived strangeness any organism can achieve; creatures that make the...
Thursday, January 24, 2013
"Margarinefly": Will it Catch On?
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Some readers may recall a mention of "butterflies of the Jurassic" back in a July post on the Daily Entomologist . Dramatically re...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
At Last: Mantidflies
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One of my favorite insects...the epitome of strangeness (perhaps) within the Insecta. If you don't know about them already: what kind of...
Monday, December 24, 2012
Jurassic Song
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Fossils are a window to the past: but rarely are such windows clear. And looking at a thing through "a glass distorted", of course...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Mormotomyiidae: They're Terrible, They're Hairy, & They're Flies
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I now present the promised post on Mormotomyia hirsuta , the "terrible hairy fly" from a lone Kenyan cave that may be the rarest f...
Friday, December 14, 2012
The Top Twenty Coolest Flies
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I just discovered this countdown of the top twenty coolest flies, compiled by Jonathan Wojcik ( http://bogleech.com/bio-flies.html ). It tru...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
" ...The Claws of a Velociraptor ... " (Yes, This Is About Insects)
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"[An] unusual insect, it has arms cocked like those of a [mantidfly], the ... stance of an Ichneumonid, the ... gait of a [long-legge...
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