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Incorrect funny definitions of insects in the literature and on the web

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AntSkr, 09.11.2007 21:34

Probably everyone has come across an incorrect, sometimes rather ridiculous definition of insects in the non-entomological literature.
Here I accidentally came across one book, so I decided to scan it to amuse the forum participants... wink.gif
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Well, how this can be released is unclear... and who works for them there... and people who are not entomologists believe in it!

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09.11.2007 21:44, Zhuk

mdaa lol.gif

09.11.2007 21:48, AntSkr

Sometimes such nonsense will be written... as I saw in one book a photo of some Plusiinae, so it was written there that it was P. bucephala!

10.11.2007 19:11, omar

It seems like a solid magazine...Rich even. Extreme Russian stupidity.

10.11.2007 23:00, алекс 2611

In the 90s, I repeatedly saw a book about the benefits of honey. It was published in a considerable number of copies. On the cover, instead of a bee, there was a picture of a sirfid fly. And it would be nice to have a photo of the beekeeper (Eristalis). So no. On the cover was a photograph of a fly from the genus Syrphus.
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11.11.2007 12:53, Juglans

It is common to bring a photo of the caterpillar of some scoops on a cabbage leaf and write that it is the caterpillar of a cabbage butterfly.

To be honest, you can't say that people believe in it - people don't care. Even without magazines, they mostly believe that insects have 8 legs, if not 4... Now is the time that if a person says that a tick is NOT an insect, then this is already good.
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11.11.2007 18:37, RippeR

The idea of entomological humor has been around for a long time smile.gif
To begin with, something accordion-like:
people believe that as many points as cows have, they are the same age.
Butterflies live for 1 day, or even 1 hour.
Moths, these are those who gnaw on wool
Any white cabbage moth
spiders, insects
the skull on a dead head is poisonous, you touch it-you don't know what will happen, but if you inhale pollen, then in general! One friend of mine proved that it was poisonous, but I'm stupid as a cork, I don't know such elementary things, because people died lol.gif
If the butterfly "pollen" from the wings is erased, it will no longer fly.
etc.

And a couple of days ago I saw a magazine with a girl in the picture, with the wings of a filly attached to the back.. So I thought "Yes, this mare's wings will fit": lol:
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11.11.2007 19:19, AntSkr

Moth, it's not just those who gnaw on wool. Moths are scoops, crested birds, cocoonworms, and other moth-like creatures wink.gif
And about the death's head - do people really think so! confused.gif

11.11.2007 21:22, Zhuk

Just a minute ago uslashal channel Animal planets new term-Mayflies)))
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11.11.2007 21:26, AntSkr

What kind of channel is this? This is the first time I've heard it...

11.11.2007 22:35, Дзанат

Oh, children's books upset me. Children's encyclopedia-beetles, among them a praying mantis. frown.gif I don't remember any other examples, but there were...frown.gif

11.11.2007 22:41, AntSkr

And the names of insects translated literally...

11.11.2007 22:48, Дзанат

And the names of insects translated literally...

Yes, there was a ground beetle, a cow, someone else I do not remember, I will not even say in which encyclopedia (they are now fullfrown.gif). A! I remembered, the text was still there, there is such a mantis beetle, it is this and that, etc. they cut it, in general, they did not use it for studying.
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11.11.2007 23:00, Zhuk

What kind of channel is this? This is the first time I've heard it...

Animal Planet, you need to configure it, recently appeared. Sometimes they make movies about insects.

11.11.2007 23:05, AntSkr

It's not satellite TV?

12.11.2007 0:07, RippeR

AntSkr:
about the dead one, exactly.. frown.gif An acquaintance - my mother's friend.. Nonsense abound smile.gif

12.11.2007 1:58, Juglans

At the GEC, its chairman, Doctor of Biological Sciences (!) corrected the student:"You made a mistake: beetles are insects with incomplete transformation. They don't have a pupa! "
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12.11.2007 10:17, omar

Is this the case in the Far East?

12.11.2007 15:21, Juglans

Yes, in the most central university... frown.gif

12.11.2007 16:11, Pavel Morozov

So Boisduval's peacock-eye was registered as a hawk moth.
I also saw in a book an excellent picture of a hornet's nest with wasps and larvae. Only the author called them bees.
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12.11.2007 16:12, Pavel Morozov

At the GEC, its chairman, Doctor of Biological Sciences (!) corrected the student:"You made a mistake: beetles are insects with incomplete transformation. They don't have a chrysalis!"

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12.11.2007 16:22, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

I was specially shown a large, beautiful (expensive!) Western album dedicated to insects. Large beautiful photo of a cockroach - Paratropes sp. The caption read-either a bug mimicking a bug, or a bug looking like a bug... I don't remember exactly, it was a long time ago...

It's not really funny. BBS movies about animals are something scary. As a rule, they are not able to correctly translate any animal names into Russian. You can't help but think of Hasek and the Animal World magazine... It's not disgusting that translators don't know the names of animals (this is a specific thing!), it's disgusting that they don't even try to translate correctly, preferring to invent "out of their heads"! The law of show business - "people get everything".
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12.11.2007 16:26, AntSkr

A couple more scans from a children's book smile.gif
 the image is no longer on the site: File0026.jpg 
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Pictures:
File0026.jpg — (30.12к) 12.11.2007 — 26.11.2007
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12.11.2007 16:31, AntSkr

Oh, by the way, what is this scoop in the second photo? It seems to be someone from Plusiinae, but then I find it difficult to determine...

12.11.2007 16:31, Насекомовед

The law of show business - "people get everything".

And when he gets drunk he starts raving: http://insect-hunter.narod.ru/bred.htm

12.11.2007 16:41, omar

There is also a great Valerian defined!

12.11.2007 16:45, Zhuk

Oh, by the way, what is this scoop in the second photo? It seems to be someone from Plusiinae, but then I find it difficult to determine...

Diachrysia sp. probably...on lilac in my smile.gifopinion
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12.11.2007 17:06, AntSkr

Just like her, you can't tell the usual gender from such a photo...

This post was edited by AntSkr - 11/12/2007 17: 28

12.11.2007 22:47, omar

It's not lilac. And not the photo lol.gif

12.11.2007 22:53, omar

It seems to me that the drawing is made from a plant of the genus budleya.

12.11.2007 22:55, AntSkr

Budleys are actually high and the flowers are arranged differently... but we've moved away from the topic, and we've already started discussing plants wink.gif

This post was edited by AntSkr - 11/12/2007 22: 55

13.11.2007 14:49, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

There is also a great Valerian defined!


At one time, quite serious people told me (the source is serious, but I didn't see it myself - for what I bought it...) that in one book for gardeners they mixed up a drawing of some edible umbrella and hemlock... It's a sad story.
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13.11.2007 16:48, Mylabris

We have a village near Almaty - Kamenskoe plateau (now, in fact, part of the city). So there are a lot of orchards on the hills covered with apple trees (someone may still remember the famous Almaatinsky aport, nostalgic...). So, in the spring, a weevil from the genus Phyllobius breeds there en masse. And the locals all assured me that at first this beetle was brought from America (!) to eat apple moth (!!!!). All my attempts to explain that all weevils are phytophages were unsuccessful. Everything would have been well forgotten if I hadn't heard the same thing 2 years later from a doctor of physical sciences. When, after my explanations, he started saying that I didn't understand anything, it struck a chord with me...
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14.11.2007 19:27, Chromocenter

Well, why be surprised? For example, I am not particularly surprised when they say that insects are insects, not animals, and that when all terrestrial arthropods are called insects, there was such a thing in some film on national geography. Since I was interested in biology, I started with insects (once...) Sometimes I had to convince my parents at home that spiders, ticks, etc. are not insects, but insects are animals... However, when I read the book "The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain", I was also surprised (I remember that feeling of wow!) to read that " a spider is not an insect, it belongs among arachnids.".. I was 12 or 11 years old at the time, and I wasn't interested yet...
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15.11.2007 7:20, Juglans

Today, the post office drew attention to the lottery tickets "Butterflies of the World". A whitish nymphalid is depicted and it is signed that butterflies have poor eyesight, so to be seen by relatives, they must have a very bright color. I would paraphrase it differently: many people have poor eyesight, so you need to make the lottery ticket as bright as possible in order for them to notice it.
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15.11.2007 20:18, VBoris

A couple of years ago, the program "You are an eyewitness" showed a video with allegedly hummingbirds, which had not previously existed in this region, although it was clearly visible how a hawk moth hovers over a flower and drinks nectarsmile.gif.
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15.11.2007 22:31, AntSkr

The main thing for them is that the TV viewers stare stupidly and are surprised and believe all sorts of nonsense... Hummingbird with hawkmoth confused wall.gif

15.11.2007 22:36, Zhuk

A couple of years ago, the program "You are an eyewitness" showed a video with allegedly hummingbirds, which had not previously existed in this region, although it was clearly visible how a hawk moth hovers over a flower and drinks nectarsmile.gif.

I saw this issue smile.gif, but they warned me in advance that the video is not a hummingbird, but a hawk moth.
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16.11.2007 16:59, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

The main thing for them is that the TV viewers stare stupidly and are surprised and believe all sorts of nonsense... Hummingbird with hawkmoth confused wall.gif


This morning on NTV - American (or some other, it doesn't matter) ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered a new type of dinosaur. Moreover, the host repeated this several times, i.e. this is not a reservation.

16.11.2007 17:42, PVOzerski

As for butterflies and hummingbirds - the same incident happened to a student from the biology department of the Herzen Pedagogical University-I had to explain who the hawks are (judging by his verbal description, he met a "hummingbird" from the genus Macroglossum in the Caucasus).
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