The attitude of ordinary people to entomologists

And when I was fishing in India, my taxi driver was so proper that he began to demand a net when he got it - he ran for half an hour without stopping, caught three butterflies and was happy

One wonderful person, my Teacher, told me a wonderful story (or a bike, I'm sorry if I got the wrong topic...). He goes somehow through the forest, catching beetles, butterflies and other animals. He goes out to a small clearing and sees an old woman with a basket of mushrooms sitting down to rest on a log.
Continues to run, catch with his favorite gauze net. And he sees it out of the corner of his eye.... softly, softly, the old woman, looking at him and shaking her head, complains: "You're a fool all right, but what's it like for your mother?.."
So much for the attitude of ordinary people

"But I had an interesting case at the front" (Leonov)
In 2003, I was lucky enough to visit almost the southeastern edge of Kazakhstan-5 km east of the village of Zhalanash. My father at work had a good friend named "Dear" who, after retirement, was engaged in an apiary-that is, he ran from April to October to the villages of the "ridnaya Kazakhstanshchina". So I agreed to spend 12-15 days in his apiary, it seems like I'm not alone, and I'll be able to help with the housework. I arrived there (and this place is 250-280 km from Almaty) I look-two "Ural" with trailers-apiaries and not a soul....
Well, I don't think anyone will bother you with questions here, there are no villages around, swing the net, set up fishing cans - no one will say a word.
.. On the first day, I went down the slopes (after pitching a tent, of course) until sunset, burying glasses in the soil, which killed either by the presence of roots or stones. Finally, everything was done at all the planned sites and I went to sleep with a calm soul. But it wasn't there! A voice called out to me: Hey, colleague, don't pass by! Let's go get some tea!"
As it turned out later, one of the beekeepers was also an entomologist (previously) - a descendant of the famous Malkovsky. In general, we sat down abstrusely and sincerely - that's how it happens-you will come to the darkness of tarakan - and there our brother is available... Nice to meet you!

People think entomologists have small minds because they interest themselves in small animals.
Howard, Leland O. (In Edwin Teale, Circle of the Seasons)

Last year, my men and I went to catch a light near the shooting ranges of the Ministry of Defense (in England). They also raised the helicopter - it must have been hanging for half an hour, shooting a searchlight at us

I was also putting cups in the spring in the field next to the shooting range,just at that moment a helicopter flew by, so then it came back and circled over me and sniffed...

Cool theme!
You can tell a lot.
I can remember only two cases - a stabbing in the Altai and a triple case in Tamzhe.
Caught foolishly a series of Aphodia spread out on the mattress. It's a dreary job. From behind, my Aboriginal friend comes up-looks over his shoulder for a long time and says-do you take this too? I say - aha!
And he is serious, with such sadness in his voice - well, after that, Roma, you are not my friend.

And also - in the Mongolian Altai-I catch butterflies-alpika, beauty. A man rides a horse in the back. There are no souls around. I drove for 4 hours - the Mongols are a patient people. Then he dismounted and started fishing for me with his cap. Then Kirill Kolesnichenko described it in my honor. Thank you to him. Well, to the unwitting helpers

The attitude of our permanent driver Mishka Sidorov is very interesting. He's a good guy. He's sitting in a UAZ truck in the Dzungarian Gobi, watching us. One herbarium lays, I sort out butterflies.
He sat down and said:
- Here, Romka, I've been working at UNI for 10 years. Who just did not drive. Some collect stones, others collect butterflies, herbs, and others do nothing at all..I don't do

I remembered again. One doctor of Science, an honored person, I will not say who once lay in a negligee in a secluded place on the Volga. Then he sees a moth flying unprecedented, jumped up and followed her, and she went into the forest, he followed her. Here the woman goes with buckets (mycelium, then), and threw buckets into the village.
Professor moth caught up, was satisfied...
Went to the beach, got dressed, goes home culturally. And he was met by about 20 villagers with pitchforks, they asked him: "You're a nice man, you haven't seen a naked maniac, our women are getting sick." No, he answers, but he goes home quickly...

Recently, I laughed wildly when I learned that some people call fingerflies crutches. Taking into account the fact that my comrades Kovtunovich and Ustyuzhanin are currently in Malawi - and they don't know it yet, I'm waiting for them to return and tell them. Or I'll send you a text now

One Kazakh - a wonderful guy Yesenchagiev-was my guide in Ukok. We're riding horses, and he's talking about what a butterfly flies - I say - Apollo Eversmann.
_ And who is this Eversmann?
- A great scientist, a natural scientist-I answer.
-Then Apollo Chagieva also flies somewhere - Yesena

Once in Mongolia, in the Gobi-Altai aimag, we catch the light. Heat. It flies like a fool. Mostly meadow moth. In kilograms.
Here UAZ-went far, turned off, to us prut.
a man throws out 15 Mongols (15 is the minimum minimum for UAZ).
One of them could speak Russian. They all stood there, laughing and laughing at us. The interpreter says-Vodka, vodka...
We tell them no vodka. We are used to the ever-greedy population of the mountains of southwestern Siberia.
And they pull us a bubble-Drink, they say, heh..y do not engage, do not disgrace the Russian person.
In general, the people are extremely complacent.
Another case. The Mongolian border guards exhausted us with their surveillance. China is 15 kilometers away, so they sit and watch. Our Mikha Sidorov (who drove) gave them a magazine with naked girls. Well, some kind of crossword puzzle, harmless, where you can barely see the breast-you can't even discourage a second-grader like that now. The border guards are armed... They grabbed the magazine, mounted their horses,and galloped to the outpost. Like the wind blew away.
We sat down, drank, and talked. About an hour has passed. Micah paused, looked at his watch, and said
, " Well, now the horses are at it...

My God, I remembered again
that I have a friend, a forest entomologist, such an exalted type. Deals with accounting of all kinds of forest pests.
They always give him a forester to help him.
They scald a stump or wood on the ground, and from there all sorts of larvae hail-and this comrade first eats them to the brim, throws them one after another. He even has the nickname Shrew. Yes, and the teeth are true with burinka...
So I thought - there is a forester (himself grown up on dumplings with honey mushrooms and maral) and sees this picture. And suddenly the faint-hearted will get caught. He'll either shoot you on the top of the head with an axe. Well, just in case. As a safety net. "He hit first , as his father taught him from an early age"

And we are just so tolerant, and if that forester would start eating bark from trees, who would be the first to warn someone with the butt of the star. Do not fig show off in front of the people and will be treated like a human, and if you explain to people what you are doing, they will almost always help. The problem is not in nh, but in us.

This post was edited by Cerega - 17.01.2009 14: 02

  
They scald a stump or wood on the ground, and from there all sorts of larvae hail-and this comrade first eats them to the brim, throws them one after another. He even has the nickname Shrew. Yes, and the teeth are true with a burinka...

Wow! And parasitologists don't even know! what work could be done from ... For example, some scrapers are parasitized in wild boars, and pass the intermediate phase in the larvae of lamellidae.
"Can they develop in humans?" the students asked.
"Yes, who knows him, a person does not eat raw larvae" - answered the teacher.

  
"But who knows, a man doesn't eat raw maggots," the teacher replied.

A true entomologist will first cook the larvae

or fry it with spices and garlic!!

A real entomologist will first cook the larvae

"So I used to be a' toy entomologist ' when I was a kid in the field, eating raw woodcutter larvae until I felt sorry for them...

This post was edited by Andreas - 18.01.2009 13: 13

It is not knowledge or understanding that creates fear in people. Because of this, ordinary people are afraid of insects and others like them. They do not know what to expect from them (insects), who can bite, sting, infect with a disease, and who can not. We, by profession, have some knowledge, at least we know how to distinguish dangerous species and avoid trouble. For ordinary people, this is similar to a miracle, and we are accordingly cranks, i.e. not of this world. Hence this attitude. As you can see, it is quite adequate.

- I agree 100%!!!

even the neglect of insects does its job.. ( as in priunip and to many other things.. so we are not the only ones who have such problems with people)

Tol`ko sejchas v predor`jah velikoj Fuji obsuzhdali s Japonzami entomofagiju
Vsem privet
Roman

"So I used to be a' toy entomologist ' when I was a kid in the field, eating raw woodcutter larvae until I felt sorry for them...

A friend of mine used to eat dragonflies as a child.
And another friend, on the first (second?) in the course of the institute, on a bet (for one Soviet ruble), I ate a live cockroach.

When I was a young naturalist, Tyumen TV people made a program about schoolchildren studying nature. Interview, the host asks me a question - " how can I catch these beetles, they are nasty?". To prove to her that they weren't disgusting at all, I ate a caterpillar while looking at the camera. The cameraman set up the camera, turned it on and left, followed by the host, who asked me to call them when I finished my meal. They were so impressionable

It is not knowledge or understanding that creates fear in people. Because of this, ordinary people are afraid of insects and others like them. They do not know what to expect from them (insects), who can bite, sting, infect with a disease, and who can not. We, by profession, have some knowledge, at least we know how to distinguish dangerous species and avoid trouble. For ordinary people, this is similar to a miracle, and we are accordingly cranks, i.e. not of this world. Hence this attitude. As you can see, it is quite adequate.

I don't know,I have a fear of prussians,flycatchers and large mosquitoes,although I'm not afraid of spiders at all.I meant if you fall on your head

- And I, although I am very ashamed to argue about it , just animal fear and disgust arise when an adult female spider-cross beeps (who does not know) in remya toko as I carefully hold it with my fingers and tries to twist around, bite through the skin on my finger........
"I can't help it! - I take the rest of the spiders very loyally. (I really didn't have close contact with the bird-eaters).
- Whether it is possible to successfully recover (and where, and how much it costs) from this shameful "philistine auto-arachnophobia"?

A friend of mine used to eat dragonflies as a child.
And another friend, on the first (second?) in the course of the institute, on a bet (for one Soviet ruble), I ate a live cockroach.

We had a similar case at uni-a student stole a deer beetle (imago) - on a bet.

"I'm walking drunk one day past a lingerie store called Underwear Magic..."
- The advertisement under the underpants shows a helikonid without antennas....
I come up and say: "I understand that the store is not for butterflies; "not for six - legged animals, anyway; but-whiskers-antennae in butterflies serve as organs of touch and smell..."
- So: - either your product is designed for otolaryngologist patients who have lost their orientation in space like a beardless butterfly, or suckers who are subject to your "Magic" that does not respond to the real quality of products ...
- Or your cowards are soulless, - because many butterflies are attracted to the smell of sweat and excrement... - in short, either finish the sawyere for a disabled person , or I'll arrange for you and not such "advertising"!
- In short (I swear by the health of my daughter) - in a month I pass sober by the store... "a butterfly with a mustache!"!!!!!!!!!!!

"I'm walking drunk one day past a lingerie store called Underwear Magic..."
- The advertisement under the underpants shows a helikonid without antennas....
I come up and say: "I understand that the store is not for butterflies; "not for six - legged animals, anyway; but-whiskers-antennae in butterflies serve as organs of touch and smell..."
- So: - either your product is designed for otolaryngologist patients who have lost their orientation in space like a beardless butterfly, or suckers who are subject to your "Magic" that does not respond to the real quality of products ...
- Or your cowards are soulless, - because many butterflies are attracted to the smell of sweat and excrement... - in short, either finish the sawyere for a disabled person , or I'll arrange for you and not such "advertising"!
- In short (I swear by the health of my daughter) - in a month I pass sober by the store... "a butterfly with a mustache!"!!!!!!!!!!!
     

you th stores terariziruyush? smari, otherwise we'll run into more cops at the congress!

Andreas, you're cool!!!!!111

you th stores terariziruyush? smari, otherwise we'll run into more cops at the congress!

- Cops shy away from entomologists like lepers (at least in our country).
- After I compared the saleswoman who disrespectfully responded to my polite request to serve grilled chicken in front of everyone in the Magnet , with the long-palate mustache (Hypena rostralis L.)- (well, it's not like comparing her to a Hussar!) - I am served without waiting lists - as disabled people and members of the V. O. V.!

This post was edited by Andreas - 23.01.2009 02: 50

- Oh, guys-hilarious!!! - I also registered on the ornithological forum SOPR-a not so long ago... - In short, they have a section "Humor" ... - There you can write "funny" related to birds...
- In short, I'm sitting in an Internet salon , - and the neighbor on the right is writhing with laughter; - I was interested; - he shows me a letter on the BOA forum ... (who knows , he will understand). "I started rolling on the floor, too. - I took and threw off this letter in this topic "Humor" (there, among the turns of the 3-storey mat, the words "dove, thrush and sparrow" were included)...
- In short, the moderator threw me out!....

from the site fmylife.com
close to the topic of the topic
Today, I was quietly having a bath when I felt something fall onto my shoulder blade. I glanced over my shoulder and made out the enormous black legs of a spider. I screamed and slapped my back: nothing happened. Completely hysterical, I threw myself violently against a wall. It was my hair. FML
and what causes the fear of spiders and other animals in general) (she was very lucky that it wasn't a real spider that would have bitten her if she tried to slap it)

When I was a young naturalist, Tyumen TV people made a program about schoolchildren studying nature. Interview, the host asks me a question - " how can I catch these beetles, they are nasty?". To prove to her that they weren't disgusting at all, I ate a caterpillar while looking at the camera. The cameraman set up the camera, turned it on and left, followed by the host, who asked me to call them when I finished my meal. That's how impressionable they were

When many of the forum members were still rocking in the cradle, God forbid, a short film, more often a popular science film, was shown in the cinema before the session in the so-called extended film program, in addition to a news magazine about the news of the day or "Wick". So, once I happened to watch the movie "Drosophila Fly - a nutritious product of the future"as such an application. After this film, I really wanted to get a beak before it was too late. And now, after many years, I sometimes look in the mirror , and the beak is already there for a long time...

This post was edited by A. J. Elez - 02/27/2009 19: 12

If you feed this fly to the size of a pig , it will be a charm in general.

"Drosophila fly is a nutritious product of the future."

Mikhail Sergeyevich did not know that the decision of the "food program" was so close...

Speaking of fruit flies, here is a cartoon about them. Tragic.

Mikhail Sergeyevich did not know that the decision of the "food program" was so close...

Yeah. But the film was made, it seems, a little earlier, in the second half of the 1970s, when Leonid Ilyich was mature. Then no Food programs would have occurred to anyone. I had to think about them just when Fyodor Davydovich was replaced by Mikhail Sergeevich (I think, already in 1979), and food began to be gradually replaced by the program... But that film, by God, made you think about the prospects... At the very least, he could hardly console anyone.

This post was edited by A. J. Elez - 02/28/2009 23: 36

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