So, spent some of yesterday learning what “sale in lieu” and “short sale” is. Between job and money issues, may have to be scarce for a few days–but I’ll be back this weekend!
Don’t forget to send in your Circus of the Spineless submissions!
Speciation via waterbug predation? (Not Rocket Science)
“Bugging” museum specimens with insects (how dermestid beetles clean bones, from the Smithsonian)
Ugly Overload has a lot of invert related posts: Camel Spiders, Wolf Spiders, and Mantids–oh my!
The EPA bans carbofuran, a pesticide that is hightly toxic to birds.
Ed at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub has coverage of the annual spring [...]
I seem to be headed to Minnesota for CONvergence. The last time I went to a science fiction convention….well, let’s just say Reagan was President then and leave it at that, shall we?
July 2-5, 2009 at the Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Bloomington, MN.
I am also VERY geeked about seeing the MST3K folks. The full schedule for [...]
By the folks at Paw-Talk. They usually talk about cute fluffy vertebrates, but made an exception for me
Here’s a selection:
“You say you blog for yourself, but you say that you have deliberately chosen “to write things that try to debunk quackery around entomological topics for lay folks.” Explain what you mean and give [...]
I drive past this sign several times a week as I commute across the state. Over the last two years, the price has gotten lower and lower.
This is an 8.9 acre piece of property in central Michigan, and on a lake.
And it’s now selling for $25K less than our house.
We’re doomed.
Oh, and Michigan still leads [...]
Since we talked about earthworms last week…how about a little research?
When I was a kid I was taught that earthworms were good. Lots of worms was a sign of a healthy soil.
As I got older, I discovered that isn’t entirely true–some midwest soils didn’t have earthworms until Europeans showed up. Some soils had a whole [...]
OMGOMGWTF.
This is, of course, a viral video promoted by Haagen-Dazs, but I like it none the less. No one tell them that they’re not supposed to have stingers if they’re dudes, K? (or that male bees don’t dance.)
There is also a disco version.
Yep, I’ll be hosting Circus of the Spineless #39 the first Monday in June (which is June 1st!). You can send your submissions to me using the email on my “about” page.
Things continue to be crazy busy–I can’t remember the last time I actually only worked 40 hours/week. (You can send tips on a new [...]
Since I had the photo from yesterday…
Frustrating. I waited until the 16th to plant out anything, and we got a hard frost last night.
GRRRR. Michigan, you vex me.
It’s freaking spring already! Get with the program!
I’m talking about the plant (Gypsophila paniculata), not actual babies, BTW.
I was recently reminded that a lot of folks don’t know that Baby’s Breath is a nasty, invasive plant in the US. Oddly enough, it was because I bought soap. They make this statement on their package:
“our hypo-allergenic bar soap …comes in 100% post consumer [...]
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