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

My aunt swears that her earwigs are being chased, bitten with pincers, and her ears are covered with cotton wool at night )))))))

(lives in the village)

in general, it is strange to expect knowledge in the field of entomology from ordinary people. you still torture them than streptococci from staphylococci differ )))) insects for most people are the same bacteria. a lot of them scurry back and forth, and judge beetles and germs)))))

When I was a child, I used to catch swallowtails in the village, on the main village road. so half the street came to our house to visit - to see this "miracle", really people were surprised - what kind of animal is this? just like in the picture!! I tell them-they fly under your nose!! and I-never seen )))) the most banal view in our area.

ps

this textbook on general biology is a pretty little book, in fact, for vocational schools.

you still torture them than streptococci from staphylococci differ )))) insects for most people are the same bacteria. a lot of them scurry back and forth, and judge beetles and germs)))))

I remember at school, when a teacher showed me staphylinid and said it was staphylins, she looked at me in horror and asked something like "Aren't you afraid of getting infected with them???" ))

Despite the fact that people are not interested in this, you can at least think with your head.. For some reason, when I was a child, without reading anything, I already guessed that what people say is basically stupid prejudices, but there was no evidence of this, since no one said anything, read anything.
For example, the skull at the death's head.. Already at the age of 5, I understood that the skull could not be poisonous, and that it was just a drawing.... Why, then, are people in their 50s still throwing out such statements??? Because the brain is smaller than that of a bicycle therapist.

Don't run into velociraptors, they have dromaeosaur brains that are big enough! The dumbest ones are stegosaurs. ))

I once got into a fight as a child, proving that Catocala tapeworms don't drink blood...

I once got into a fight when I was a kid, trying to prove that Catocala tapeworms don't drink blood...

But this is cool! In whose inflamed brain could such a theory arise? For some reason, it seemed to me that the overwhelming majority of ordinary people do not even assume the existence of these butterflies.

They constantly flew into our entrance and apparently someone from the yard punks was able to see them. As evidence of vampirism, the red color of the hind wings and the presence of a long proboscis were cited. After that, the "act of genocide" against the bandit women began, and I tried to stop the massacre.

Ah, I remember! Softlings-they were always considered bloodsuckers.. When I was small and I was informed about it, I started to be afraid of these beetles, but over time I started to realize that this is nonsense

Yes, blood-sucking tapeworms are cool. But I've heard that there are still blood-sucking scoops. Maybe, who knows? Like, in South America. The information is from a popular, but alas, poorly scientific book by Marikovsky, so nothing came out more accurately with Latin. But not believing him is also stupid.

Calyptra thalictri from MO drinks mammalian blood.

Does she pierce the skin with her proboscis?

The common name of many of these species, "vampire moth," refers to the habit that they have of drinking blood from vertebrates. According to a recent study some of them (Calyptra thalictri) are even capable of drinking human blood through skin [2]

Some species of this genus have been classified with genus name Calpe and they include more than one blood-sucker.

"Does she pierce the skin with her proboscis?"
well, if he drinks blood, then somehow he punctures it...

It doesn't mean anything. You can drink blood from wounds. Perelivnitsy also do not pierce the bark of trees, although they often drink juice.

I don't know then... many tropical scoops pierce after all (I read somewhere)...

No, Calyptra thalictri does not pierce the skin with its proboscis, it tears it apart with its feet, and then licks the blood...

Have you seen it yourself?

Oshchshchushchal!!!

But seriously, this is a variation of our "scarecrow" for careless students!!!

Well, just super! You will see what signature was made on the website "Red Book of the Moscow region" to the photo of Oryctes nasicornis http://www.geogr.msu.ru/rb/gallery.html
Well, if here...
P.S. The soul could not stand it. Sent the authors of the site "angry" letter to "soap".

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 19.02.2008 14: 54

Well, just super! You will see what signature was made on the website "Red Book of the Moscow region" to the photo of Oryctes nasicornis http://www.geogr.msu.ru/rb/gallery.html
Well, if here...

Yes, look at the specialist who gave the caption to the photo!

I received a response to my appeal from the authors of the website "Red Book of the Moscow Region" about the caption to the photo of a rhinoceros beetle:

"Dear Victor,

Thank you for your comment, which is undoubtedly absolutely correct. With
the next update of the site, the ridiculous error will be fixed.

Sincerely,
Alexander "

probably Google entered-rhino beetle - that the first had to, then it was written

http://www.newsru.com/russia/17sep2003/butterfly.html - we couldn't put at least any thinworm on the photo, we put a cocoonworm...

  http://www.newsru.com/russia/17sep2003/butterfly.html - we couldn't put at least any thinworm on the photo, we put a cocoonworm...

Apparently, in the opinion of the author of the article, the cocoonworm "full face" looks older and looks like a dinosaur! And how did you like the passage: "Apparently, for some time, individuals of the thinworm decorated, due to unfavorable conditions, simply fell into a long hibernation"? Aha, hibernate for ten years! And as soon as they woke up, they immediately began to multiply

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 02/28/2008 20: 45

I found it in the same place:
http://www.newsru.com/world/14aug2003/monstr.html
What Do you Think?! What just isn't there! And a loud creak in flight, and the ability to break through hives with a proboscis... Wo, monster! Well, give zhurnalyugi!

http://www.lepidoptera.al.ru/Kokonopryad/Seriy.htm - I was amused by this definition...

My aunt swears that her earwigs are being chased, bitten with pincers, and her ears are covered with cotton wool at night )))))))

That they are being persecuted is nonsense, of course. And the rest... They tingle. It doesn't hurt too much when you sleep on the beach in the summer and accidentally press it down - it's not very pleasant, I would even say quite sensitive.
About seven years ago there was a case-in the ear crawled. I started scratching my eardrum. It didn't seem too bad.
Since then, when it happens to spend the night on the beaches, I plug my ears without fail.

  http://www.lepidoptera.al.ru/Kokonopryad/Seriy.htm - I was amused by this definition...

Current link -
http://gzurka.narod.ru/Kokonopryad/Seriy.htm
And by the way, what is it in the picture, something I don't understand...

Pterostoma palpina

That they are being persecuted is nonsense, of course. And the rest... They tingle. It doesn't hurt too much when you sleep on the beach in the summer and accidentally press it down - it's not very pleasant, I would even say quite sensitive.
About seven years ago there was a case-in the ear crawled. I started scratching my eardrum. It didn't seem too bad.
Since then, when it happens to spend the night on the beaches, I plug my ears without fail.

Et You can be said to be lucky. You can say that you were born in a shirt. For having gnawed through the eardrum, the earwig penetrates the brain, where it feeds on brain tissues and grows to the size of a chicken (according to some sources - goose) egg. Unfortunately, further stages of development remain unexplored.

PS There is an assumption that the parasitic person is doomed to engage in Insecta, and especially Polyneoptera, for the rest of his life.

About seven years ago there was a case-in the ear crawled. I started scratching my eardrum. It didn't seem too bad.
Since then, when it happens to spend the night on the beaches, I plug my ears without fail.

Let me ask you, can't another non-earwig insect (centipede, arachnid, woodlouse, after all) accidentally crawl into the ear (open mouth, nostrils in a dream)? By the way, O. N. Kabakov points out that some dung beetles (in particular, from Onthophagus) can even (sorry!) crawl into the anus...

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 07.04.2008 19: 15

Let me ask you, can't another non-earwig insect (centipede, arachnid, woodlouse, after all) accidentally crawl into the ear (open mouth, nostrils in a dream)? By the way, O. N. Kabakov points out that some dung beetles (in particular, from Onthophagus) can even (sorry!) crawl into the anus...

My observations of insects show that they usually know exactly what they want and are busy with their insect activities, but not looking for adventures. As you yourself have noticed, dung beetles do not crawl anywhere, but wherever they smell the right smell. No accident at all.
I have spent many nights in nature without a tent and all sorts of animals can crawl on my face and body. But apart from this case, nothing ever crawled anywhere.
But I don't deny that in theory some other arthropod can crawl somewhere. But in the 12 years that I have been practicing open-air sleepovers, there have been no such cases.

My observations of insects show that they usually know exactly what they want and are busy with their insect activities, but not looking for adventures. As you yourself have noticed, dung beetles do not crawl anywhere, but wherever they smell the right smell. No accident at all.
I have spent many nights in nature without a tent and all sorts of animals can crawl on my face and body. But apart from this case, nothing ever crawled anywhere.
But I don't deny that in theory some other arthropod can crawl somewhere. But in the 12 years that I've been practicing open-air sleepovers, there haven't been any such cases.

Dear okoem, I was just joking . But, honestly, although I am not an expert on this group, but based on the information from the literature (which was available to me), I doubt that earwigs can not live without visits to human ears. Purely in terms of speculation: perhaps they are attracted to something by the smell of earwax? Or are they just looking for a comfortable "hole"? I don't know if there have been any studies on this subject, and in general, about the etymology of the name "earwig"

Dear okoem, I was just joking .

I don't mind
As for the literature, they write everywhere that crawling in the ears is a fiction of the dark people. Until then, I thought so. And then-I realized that writing this cabinet comrades just never tried to spend the night in the open air in the habitats of earwigs. Unlike our ancestors, for whom relaxing on the grass under a tree was commonplace, and not something out of the ordinary.
By the way, as far as I know, the English name of the earwigs is "earworm". Why would there be such a coincidence?

Indeed, you can't trample on the age-old folk wisdom. It is unlikely that different peoples have the same prejudices about the same insect (and such sophisticated ones) .

Hmm, just like that? This, if it doesn't change the situation, makes everything even more confusing. Interestingly, do the southern peoples (in Central Asia, for example, in the Caucasus, etc.) also associate Dermaptera with penetration into the ears? No one knows?

I found it in the same place:
http://www.newsru.com/world/14aug2003/monstr.html
What Do you Think?! What just isn't there! And a loud creak in flight, and the ability to break through hives with a proboscis... Wo, monster! Well, give zhurnalyugi!

Kapets, proboscis beehive punch
Duc, it can be used in the national economy with such abilities - open cans!

This post was edited by Dinusik-08.04.2008 14: 29

  http://www.lepidoptera.al.ru/Kokonopryad/Seriy.htm - I was amused by this definition...

Thank you for clarifying the view!
I fixed everything.
And there's not much to have fun with. I "flipped through" dozens of different sites on butterflies. The butterfly with that name came closest to mine.
I'm not an expert in this area. On the first page of the site, this is honestly written, as well as a request to experts in this field to help clarify the species belonging of a particular specimen and correct errors in determining species.
If you flick through my scoops and moths, you'll have plenty to have fun with. There are many mistakes there. Come in, have a laugh if it's so much fun, but share the correct definitions. I will only be grateful to you.

Let me ask you, can't another non-earwig insect (centipede, arachnid, woodlouse, after all) accidentally crawl into the ear (open mouth, nostrils in a dream)? By the way, O. N. Kabakov points out that some dung beetles (in particular, from Onthophagus) can even (sorry!) crawl into the anus...

As far as I remember, similar cases are known in medical practice. And where only the most diverse creatures did not climb! Extraction of scolopendra from the nasal sinuses (!!!) - I can't give a link from memory, but, as far as I remember, a serious source.

And the famous story of strangling a man with a land leech somewhere in Southeast Asia? According to legend, the leech was sucked into the throat and the pump blocked the windpipe. The fact that these creatures really climb where only it is possible and where it is impossible - the witness himself. But not to feel IT in your throat-how much should you drink in nature?

The following reliable story - one well-known specialist (ZIN RAS) tick (Ixodes persulcatus) managed to stick to the mucous membrane of the eyelid! He felt it (the tick) only after it was already well established. Fortunately, a colleague (everything happened in the field, in the Far East) had an eye tweezer with him.

So, there are all sorts of cases.