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

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28.05.2011 23:31, DYNASTES

Recently I got acquainted with the book of Doctor of Biological Sciences S. S. Izhevsky-The Amazing world of beetles, Moscow: CJSC "Fiton", 2002 (2003). 176 p., fig. ISBN: 5-93457-053-6, which left a truly twofold impression. On the one hand, it is clear that the book is intended primarily for children and does not claim to be superscientific, on the other hand, the author has a degree in biology, is a co-author of another, no longer "children's" book " Izhevsky S. S., Nikitsky N. B., Volkov O. G., Dolgin M. M.-Illustrated handbook of xylophage beetles-pests of forests and timber products of Russia, 2005", but nevertheless the book left a double impression.

The first blunder that caught your eye is already on page 7:"

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17.07.2011 21:33, Юстус

When studiosuses refer to the Internet (as a "source"), I go wild (not as a hare-gryzlunishko of some kind, but as a "natural" evil hichnik).
"Is the Internet Afftar's last name?" Have you been to the library?"
"But the library doesn't have any books."
- Н-дык, што? Do you have one library? And this is for a city of one and a half million people? Or like in that joke? (Two ladies. One: "Ah! what should I give him for his birthday?" The other is "knishku". First: "he doesn't roll, he already has a book.") Bad luck!
No, well, I'm not a fanatic, * pdf-this is "tolerable".
Rare students, trying to justify themselves in the face of obscurantism, point their index finger "up": "And by the way, he ... told me to use the Internet. Vaughn, dazh, in some "village" the madhouse was connected to the I-tu."
"Aha, top ischo and the lunatics have smattered the guy," the obscurantist said.
And then (contextually, - bene note! - I say in my "justification"), a series of tirades follows in the address of the "velefshy user" (st-a probably won't have enough" tyamas": turn on the dictaphone, record invective tirades and send them" where they need to go"; look – one less obscurantist would have become).
In fact, of course, I will take my words (many) back (in the "good" sense of the word), and, even, on studiosifovo yuzanye And-tom, "score", ifffff someone explains what this means:
"Biting pilot "(referring to ... a fly)?
"Eristalinus is a genus of babblers. < ... > Most are robust flies, and are biting pilots, even compared to other species of babblers." (http://ru.encydia.com/en/Eristalinus)
For case matches (and many-many other things) we (we are not students with you, some ...e, even if-a state university) will close our eyes.
And so, - the scientific entourage is observed (even A. V. Barkalov is present in the mixed Cyrillic-Latin notation)...
PYSY Fludisto? But, - from the heart...

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19.07.2011 23:40, DYNASTES

It is always not pleasant and offensive (for science, and people far from the topic who are being misled) to find biological errors and inaccuracies, and sometimes outright nonsense, but it is doubly terrible to realize this idea when such blunders are suffered by exactly those people who, according to the idea, should correct them on the contrary and educate people in the right direction - those who are not mediocre familiar with the "theme". The next "pearls" were found on the website Stanislavsky Naturalist (Stanislavsky naturalist) http://www.naturalist.if.ua/ which our colleague, Andrey Zamoroka, is responsible for maintaining and publishing all the materials (which he also authored). However, after these "pearls", I don't want to call him a colleague somehow. Comrade Zamorok is a biologist who specializes in ecology and entomology. In 2009, he defended his dissertation on the topic "Ecological features of entomocomplexes of barbel beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in forest ecosystems of the north-eastern macroslope of the Ukrainian Carpathians" and received a scientific degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences. He works as an assistant at the Carpathian National University and as a research zoologist at the Galician National Park.

The site is something like an updated online magazine that publishes articles on biological topics. The author himself states that the site was conceived as an educational publication for a wide range of readers. I found the first mistake a long time ago, in an article about the woodcutter-titan (Titanus giganteus) - the largest beetle (http://www.naturalist.if.ua/?p=2151 like all the articles on the site, it is in Ukrainian, the author is clearly not patriotic). Or rather, maybe it's not even a blooper. Zamoroka writes the following in the article: (translated into Russian) ""On the Internet, you can find sites that offer to buy a barbel-titan from them. Such a treat will cost 15-20 euros for one beetle and another 15 euros for delivery. Recently, unconfirmed information was posted on Wikipedia that the price of large copies can reach 500 US pupaars ... And on one of the forums I read that last year a Guiana company sold a large female barbel-titan for 1500 (one and a half thousand) US pupaars! I think such figures are nothing more than Internet stories,"". The person clearly does not know the topic, but at the same time tries to draw some conclusions that are not groundless. You can certainly find a titanium for 20 euros, but this will be the minimum size, and for collections, of course, the maximum possible and affordable ones are bought, the price of which just reaches 500 and 1500 green, as you can easily see on the same e-bay, where a male with a length of 161 mm (maximum length of 167 mm) was sold with an initial auction bid of just over 1,400 bucks. To this remark in the comments to the article, he gave a link to a certain site where males with a length of 10 cm were sold for 30 euros, while the author stupidly ignored the fact that titanuses with a price of 280 euros and above were available on the same site, continuing to disagree with the remark in the response comments.

The second mistake was already found in the article about the largest lepidoptera in the world http://www.naturalist.if.ua/?p=4459. Illustrations taken from some Internet site Zamorokoy, allegedly Alexandra's Birdwing, depict in one case a butterfly from the related genus Troides, in another case an Ornithopter Tithonus, although they are signed as Alexandra's Ornithopter. The roots of the blooper grow from the site where the author of the article took indiscriminately photos that were originally mistakenly signed. To another comment in the comments, the author, as always, without even trying to understand, began to deny and object as always in response, even being wrong, trying to prove that this is not Titon at all, but all the "golden form" of Alexandra.

I understand that not every entomologist should and can know, but since you have already taken up the task of educating the people, so be kind - either do not go into those topics that you do not know, or at least try to study it, and then write - otherwise it turns out not to enlighten the people, but only to introduce new misconceptions, which in the vast expanses of the network is enough as it is........

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21.07.2011 21:21, Dracus

"Locusts survive tourists from Crimea"
"Crimea will be littered with locust corpses"

On the websites of various media outlets, everyone is shown as an illustration of "invaders" - from a swamp filly to a tettigonia, and in in this video in the role of locusts traditionally Decticus albifrons.

Question to our Crimean colleagues: who is attacking you there?

Still pleased, in the same topic:

"biologists from Harvard University have discovered in the Crimea a rare spider from the family of tarantulas, popularly called the stomper spider. Moreover, it turned out that the giant Crimean stomper spider threatens to move to mainland Ukraine, and then it will flood the Balkans and the entire south of Western Europe! "

Thanks magelanin

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05.09.2011 10:45, John-ST

Maybe it's an accordion, but here's a rare perlosite:
http://zhukland.ru/

Some pearls:

"The word insects (derived from the Latin word insecta)..."

There are 12 articles associated with the word hymenoptera. Of these, 1 is straight-winged, 1 is caddisfly, 1 is mayfly, 1 is about cicadas (but for some reason it is associated with flies and diptera to a heap), 2 is dragonflies, 3 is flies and still 3 is hymenoptera and the article "hymenoptera" so that we don't confuse anything exactly is associated with butterflies

It's a cicada. "Their high-pitched and shrill songs can be heard in all the warm corners of the world. The sound is produced by special organs on the chest, working on the principle of clicking the lid of a tin can. "
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Onychophores are real predators:

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Caddis flies:

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Dead-eating beetles:

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"Vladimir Nabokov was one of the most famous etymologists in the world..."

"But not all insects are harmful, some can simply plant a person. "

"The wings of flies and similar insects are thin flaps devoid of muscle. Flies flap them, changing the position of the chest - the place to which the wings are attached."

"Scientists can't say exactly where the class of insects came from, because there are no fossils. But all entomologists believe that insects are descended from crustaceans "

"Horsefly larvae, or as they are also called - saprophages"

"Lice cling to the owner with their claws. Their flattened body presses tightly against the skin, making them difficult to comb out. .. The female attaches 4 eggs ("nits") to human hair. "

"But still, most members of this group [millipedes] live in forests, helping to decompose rotten wood and leaf litter."

"When a small insect, such as an ant, falls into a pit, the ant lion knocks it down with grains of sand (for an ant, this is like a boulder for a person!)"

Three key features allowed insects to become so numerous and diverse. This is a rigid outer shell, wings and flexible jointed limbs.

Afftar, rarely delivers

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05.09.2011 11:28, Victor Titov

Maybe it's an accordion, but here's a rare perlosite:
http://zhukland.ru/

Yeah!
Here's another one from the same place :" Male insects "sing" to scare off competitors from their territory and attract a sexual partner."

"These creatures were recognized by biologists as giant grasshoppers. They could have come from the south in an abnormally hot summer and live in the ventilation pipes. Coming out of the hood, they look like giant beetles with frog legs."

"Ground beetle ribbed, common mantis, beauty brilliant and water skater sphagnum will cost poachers a thousand rubles per copy. For the destruction or damage of a dwelling, the amount is tripled. Any injuries inflicted on individuals will cost 50 % of the established standard."

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