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Yvonne Esquilin saw Jesus image on @@Eacles imperialis@@'s back. The moth was resting on Yvonne's home in Georgetown, Texas, where she found it last week. “At first it looked like Jesus,” said Esquilin. “And I still think it looks ...
Holy crap! Diagnosis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
In 1997 an English alternative rock band The Verve released their best album “Urban Hymns” noted for the legendary song Bitter Sweet Symphony that became a worldwide hit and one of the greatest rock songs of all time. Another piece from this ...
The whole album is great! I must have played it a thousand times over.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation said that it has been unable to wipe out the @@Tuta absoluta@@ moth that was discovered late last year. As reported, the moth destroyed 90% of tomato crops in Yemen bringing losses about $350 ...
Петр! В огородных магазинах еще и не ...
Не имей сто друзей, а имей… сто муравьёв поблизости, так рассудили перуанские шашечницы-хитрюги, обманывающие местных муравьёв. Как ...
Не имей сто друзей, а имей… сто ...
Тем временем, в Нижнем Новгороде вспоминают Корнея Чуковского: жители Ленинского района жалуются на расплодившихся в округе ...
Тем временем, в Нижнем Новгороде ...
Прошедший во французском городе Сен-Дени финал Евро-2016 был отмечен не только долгим отсутствием первенства и первого гола, которого с ...
Не предположительно, а совки и есть )) На ...
В Тюмени, где сейчас страдают от массового нашествия шелкопряда, завершается городской квест «Найди бабочку». Задача — сделать как ...
В Тюмени, где сейчас страдают от ...
Знаменитый на весь мир мавзолей Тадж-Махал страдает от насекомых, оставляющих экскременты на мраморных стенах мечети. Хирономиды ...
Знаменитый на весь мир мавзолей ...
Stuart Curtis, 38-year-old father of three children of Carlisle, UK, was very surprised to find a live moth flying inside a sealed bag of spinach. “I went into Sainsbury’s on Tuesday to stock up after the bank holiday,” Curtis told the ...
All very simple - do not notice in the sample of the cocoon (chrysalis), ...
To meet the declining Californian butterfly @@Euphydryas editha bayensis@@, or rather its pupa, you should put yourself to Edgewood Park natural preserve in Northern California, turn your back to the sun and peer at the ground under your shadow. ...
Thank you for the tip-off, we will check.
How to say “butterfly” in !Xu bushman language or in Indian telugu? Easy. Just remember that Sorbian-Lower “mjatel” turns into “mjetel” when it's Sorbian-Upper, Cheyenne “hevavahkema” sounds quite different from Cornish tykki-Dyw, ...
People almost every day on this article walks (upon request). And the more ...
Japanese flautist Youkie Ota of the Odense Symphony Orchestra, Denmark, was honoured with a... butterfly that perched right upon the flautist's nose during an international flute competition. Pierre Sancan genuine fan? The butterfly fluttered ...
Papilionidae do differ :))) Say, Attacus atlas.........
The hero of the day stayed for 48 hours in the ear of a 43-year-old Brit from Aylesbury, UK. Now it “oscares” on a bookshelf at the poor man's home. As BBC reports, Robert Fielding inadvertently pushed the moth deep into his ear canal ...
Yeah, almost 6 cm. In scope :)
The unique Yew-and-Boxwood Tree Grove in Sochi, Russia, is having a bad time as nearly all local boxwood trees (Buxus colchica) were destroyed by @@Cydalima perspectalis@@ larvae which feed on boxwood tree leaves. The moth was supposedly brought ...
Sorry for off-top, I'm still mainly Coleoptera man :) Insects happen to ...
This pic caused a great interest: excuse me, what is this? This terrific infernal thing outthrusting of a poor moth? Not the first come to mind. This is called coremata (Greek) which is originally means “feather duster”, an eversible scent ...
Sorry, that if you delete a comment that overwhelmed impression - a ...
Dutch photographer Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel makes stunning macro photos of insects and more like this wonderful picture of the Blue Emperor swallowtail @@Papilio ulysses@@ wing shot at 20:1. For those who are curious about technical side, there are ...
Johan, thanks for your comment! Fixed.
Biologists wondered a lot why sloths known for their extraordinary inactivity came off trees... for a toilet procedures. Whilst these mysterious critters are evidently in more safe when staying atop rather then being down on the forest floor, ...
Biologists wondered a lot why sloths known for their extraordinary ...
The Saint-Petersburg Ecology and Biology Centre “Krestovsky Island” bestows Alexey Kupriyanov Entomology Club that offers entomology classes for juniors and seniors. Alexey Kupriyanov graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University, the ...
The Saint-Petersburg Ecology and Biology Centre “Krestovsky ...
Yet the summer getaway turns out to be the real deal. Whilst I'm peacefully chilling alone in a palm tree, gazing around, sipping something... appropriate, seeing no butterflies at all, local palm TV is playing all time classics The Cranberries ...
Yes, but at that moment someone reads aloud: I love you with palm ...
Once our good twitter friend, entomologist Daniel Llavaneras (https://twitter.com/dllavaneras), came back from the expedition in the Andes and placed his Lepidoptera trophies, a dozen specimens inside an exicator, or simply relaxing chamber. Time ...
My advice to Daniel: always put some ethyl acetate on the exicator bottom, ...
In April this year, a small group (my friend and fellow Thai) traveled to the north-east Thailand. We have an interest in the region plant Hoya (Hoya) and we were curious to see them in their natural habitat, and generally interesting all ...
Mota into their heads.
Wisconsin forestry officials appealed to people for help in fight against gypsy moth @@Lymantria dispar@@. People are asked to seek for and destroy gypsy moth eggs as the pest is awaited to start hatching over the next few weeks, according to the ...
Videos added. Animals feel anxious:)
Found on the web: a brief theological debate on never-ending “If we will get wings THERE (after death)?” The right one answers “I say, no any wings! You're just dying and that's all!..”
Cool!
ZooKeys 289 (2013) issue features the descriptions of two new moth species of the genus Ypsolopha from the Russian Far East. The authors of the study are Margarita Ponomarenko and Yuliya N. Zinchenko, Institute of Biology and Soil Science FEB ...
ZooKeys 289 (2013) issue features the descriptions of two new moth ...
United States Postal Service released a new spring stamp for big envelopes featuring spicebush swallowtail @@Papilio troilus@@. This is the third in a butterfly series that includes monarch @@Danaus plexippus@@ and Baltimore checkerspot ...
United States Postal Service released a new spring stamp for big ...
Years ago the Moscow publishing house “Izobrazitelnoye iskusstvo” brought out a series of butterfly-themed postcards in cooperation with artist Leonid Varsanofievich Aristov. Aristov is originally from Karpunikha village, Gorkov (now Nizhny ...
Uh-huh, thanks.
...thought the painted lady and headed right to Bolshaya Pokrovskaya street in Nizhny Novgorod. Where it was caught red-handed, naturally. Butterflies flew to Nizhny Novgorod (in Russian)
No biggies, won't take long. Month ago I already caught something, just ...
The Committee on Rare and Endangered Wildlife Species of the Khabarovsk region advised that the next three relict species would be put on the Khabarovsk Red List — @@Sphecodina caudata@@, @@Shijimiaeoides divina@@ and @@Protohermes martynovae@@, ...
Marten reigns.
This Bannerghatta Butterfly Park is indeed a sinister site. Whilst the staff's cutting down attacking pterodactyls, this spider is just peacefully eating a butterfly, allegedly Red Pierrot, though it looks a bit different. Is the poor thing really ...
Vasily, thanks. So do I see this underside is not one of a red pierrot.
Hilarious video of the couple versus critter. The wife won, as you do. The critter is stunning too.
Thanks. The English version plays good. If put off all the damns, Mexico's ...
Buff-tip (@@Phalera bucephala@@) moth camouflaged as a broken twig, via @RiverExplorerUK, http://twitter.com/RiverExplorerUK/status/311415344566775808.
Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala) moth camouflaged as a broken twig, via ...
The country's first butterfly park spread over 7.5 acres in Bannerghatta National Park, Bangalore, India, is a sweet home for 20 butterfly species, which are in thorough care there. Birds, on the contrary, are not quite welcome guests even as much ...
The country's first butterfly park spread over 7.5 acres in Bannerghatta ...
Luggages do vary and may include lot of things unimaginable to be carried — immense sofas, medieval marble mortars, even fireplace in its whole, not to forget insects... some of which yet happen to be forgotten to register, and turns out not ...
Luggages do vary and may include lot of things unimaginable to be ...
Painted ladies, yellow admirals and monarchs sound kind of comic opera characters, yet the reality is way simpler. These are the common names of some of the butterflies of Ash Island in the abundant in wildlife estuary of the Hunter River, ...
Frankly I've got nothing against David Carter or Vanessa cardui:) Still ...
The Moth's Eye is a new approach by Japanese manufacturer Asahi Glass Co., world's largest flat glass producing company. The strategy is based on the structure of the moth's eye, which is known to have no troubles with sun glares and reflections. ...
The Moth's Eye is a new approach by Japanese manufacturer Asahi Glass ...
“Demons and Butterflies—Weather predictability and predictions” public lecture by Richard A. Anthes will be held on February 21st at the UNM Conference Center, Albuquerque (US). Dr. Richard A. Anthes is a distinguished atmospheric scientist, ...
“Demons and Butterflies—Weather predictability and predictions” ...
Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo made male silkmoths (@@Bombyx mori@@) drive two-wheeled vehicle by distributing synthetic pheromone bombykol in a wind tunnel. Naturally bombykol is released by female silkmoths to attract mates. ...
Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo made male silkmoths ...
Climber Araujia sericifera belonging to the Apocynaceae family has different common names including “moth plant” and “cruel vine”. Its beautiful white flowers have plenty of sweet, sticky nectar, which attracts monarch butterflies ...
Climber Araujia sericifera belonging to the Apocynaceae family has ...
The "Contributions to the systematics of New World macro-moths" series in ZooKeys, a peer-reviewed open access academic journal for the field of zoology by Pensoft Publishers, since its very first 2009 edition has been known as a major bulletin in ...
The "Contributions to the systematics of New World macro-moths" series ...
Genetic research of the diamondback moth @@Plutella xylostella@@ has revealed the secret of the world's worst agricultural pest that costs about $5 billion damage every year in crop losses and insecticides. An international consortium also ...
Genetic research of the diamondback moth Plutella xylostella has ...
The very name “bug hotel” could make one itch together with unpleasant reminiscences of someone's horror nights in Thailand journey. These days instead bugs may have an exclusive night-stop in London “bug hotels” that made up a real ...
The very name “bug hotel” could make one itch together with ...
@@Acherontia atropos@@ or simply death's head hawk moth captured the public imagination once again, this time not with its noted terrific skull-shaped pattern. The moth appeared to be able to peep, and according to the owner of the following video, ...
Why nails always spoil everything.
What would be a pure miracle now? Right, all these magical transformations from the Bear into a beautiful young man and backward, happy accidents and a lovely princess as ready to shoot down any stranger who dares to enter the castle as is to marry ...
What would be a pure miracle now? Right, all these magical transformations ...
North America's largest indoor butterfly pavilion Butterfly Wonderland is being constructed in the Salt River Reservation, AZ (US) as a part of a larger entertainment complex called Odysea in the Desert. The pavilion will include a theater, ...
On the way, it's on the way.
Rap metal was born in the late 1980s when rappers and metal fans were still violently fighting head-to-head. Music however leaves no place for limits and fights, so today those who love rap metal have a whole range of bands to enjoy, say, Reveille ...
Rap metal was born in the late 1980s when rappers and metal fans were ...
First, there is a short story to tell. In the memorable 100-meter men's sprint of the Olympics 2012 in London a British gentleman Ashley Gill-Webb being presumably in high spirits (beer as well, they say), threw a bottle on to the track allegedly ...
First, there is a short story to tell. In the memorable 100-meter men's ...
The world's leading research and education museum, Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago (US) lately announced serious budget cuts to research and curation support. According to Dr. Rob Wiedenmann, President of the Entomological Society of ...
The world's leading research and education museum, Field Museum of ...
Jacob Morris has been properly playing cello since four, and not long ago he finally released the debut LP “Moths”, which was recorded in the very “Music City” Nashville, where they traditionally serve good stuff. Country music is of special ...
Jacob Morris has been properly playing cello since four, and not long ago ...
The last post of the year is all warm wishes for Lepidoptera.ru friends, of perpetual great butterfly hunt, always descriptive and accurate labels, correct IDs, of patience and never-ending interest in either winged creature that has scales, and ...
Lev, thanks for the wishes and fab video!
In the Congo, where mammals and birds are nearly extinguished by hunters, somewhere deep in the rain forests everything is full of life, which is all buzzing, crunching and peeping, and these sounds truly dominate everyone happened to be ...
In the Congo, where mammals and birds are nearly extinguished by ...