Busy busy busy today…so look at these lovely butterflies gettin’ it on.

This incredible photo of  Apollo (Papilionidae) butterflies is from Angela Wolf.

This is an IUCN Red List endangered species, so it’s good to see some potential reproduction!

Posted by Gwen Pearson

Writer. Nerd. Insect Evangelist. Have you heard the good news? BUGS!

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5 Comments

  1. Stonehead July 14, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    I read this and immediately thought of you!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7498195.stm

    I particularly liked “the ghost slug is carnivorous and kills earthworms at night with powerful, blade-like teeth, sucking them in like spaghetti.”

    I can just see an old slug taking a young one aside: “Heh, come over here, kid, learn something…”

  2. Bug Girl July 14, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    I didn’t think slugs could possibly get worse–but now they kill earthworms? Eek!

  3. Stonehead July 15, 2008 at 5:16 am

    And here’s another bug that has entomologists mystified.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7506355.stm

    It turned up at the Natural History Museum in London, where you’d think someone would be able to identify it. But no, it remains a Mystery Bug.

  4. andrea July 15, 2008 at 7:41 am

    Ooh, in-sex!

    (-:

    andrea

  5. Bug Girl July 15, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Hmmm. Image has disappeared, and wordpress has gone all wonky. Dang you wordpress!

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