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Austrian researchers found out that wings of the Great Orange Tip (@@Hebomoia glaucippe@@), an Asian butterfly of the Pieridae family, contain venom. It appears that its white wings beautifully designed with contrast red-orange are not meant only ...
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 ...