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In the Congo, where mammals and birds are nearly extinguished by hunters, somewhere deep in the rain forests everything is full of life, which is all buzzing, crunching and peeping, and these sounds truly dominate everyone happened to be ...
In the Congo, where mammals and birds are nearly extinguished by ...
Some lepidoptera species get nutrition in a very intricate manner, they fish tears out of the sleeping birds' eyes using harpoon-like proboscis with special barbs at its tip. Back in 2006 scientists discovered those moths feeding on birds in ...
Some lepidoptera species get nutrition in a very intricate manner, they ...
Bristol band Massive Attack is an England's most prominent electronic music group, the trip hop patriarchs that for already three decades have been staying best musicians in the genre. “Butterfly Caught” from their fourth album 100th Window ...
Bristol band Massive Attack is an England's most prominent electronic ...
“Baby, it's cold outside” should butterflies be murmuring to each other whilst dreaming deep beneath the snow and waiting for spring. Which is fairly hard to disagree these days when it's about minus 20 Celsius outside. However the winter has a ...
“Baby, it's cold outside” should butterflies be murmuring to each ...
The King of Rockabilly as Ray Campi is called has been reigning long and capitally, as true king is supposed to do. During the reign he even happened to work as a high-school teacher in California for 25 whole years, and today Campi in his nearly 80 ...
The King of Rockabilly as Ray Campi is called has been reigning long and ...
Robert Schumann's suite of piano pieces “Papillons, Op. 2” written in 1831 was inspired by Jean Paul's novel “Die Flegeljahre”. The masquerade from the last scene is brilliantly played by Claudio Arrau, great Chilean pianist also known as a ...
Robert Schumann's suite of piano pieces “Papillons, Op. 2” written in ...
Exhibit Guide, Tropical Butterfly Greenhouse, Yaroslavl (Russia) Yaroslavl Dolphinarium has an opening for Exhibit Guide to work in the Tropical Butterfly Greenhouse. Duties include leading excursions for visitors, butterfly care. Applicants ...
Seems men are another kind of "plant and butterfly enthusiasts", or they ...
Wildlife Photography Day will be held on December, 15th at the Central House of Artists, Moscow (RU). The photography workshop is arranged by the Union of Naturalist Photographers and National Geographic Russia magazine. Special guests to hold ...
Wildlife Photography Day will be held on December, 15th at the Central ...
One-act chamber pastoral opera “Vladimir in Butterfly Country” was staged on November 16th at the Old First Church, San Francisco (US), score by Ann Callaway and Jaime Robles' libretto. One may guess from the title this is kind of dedication ...
One-act chamber pastoral opera “Vladimir in Butterfly Country” was ...
Dear friends, since now the Saturday and Sunday musical stories will be combined in one post tagged “music” as usual. It should be interesting to see how they're matched together and as well more handy to make your own themed playlists like ...
Dear friends, since now the Saturday and Sunday musical stories will be ...
Mulberry leaves are now coming from different parts of Waiheke island to Surfdale for craftswoman Skate, or exactly for her silk worms. Skate's hard-working silk worms got their glory along with considerable supplies of mulberry leaves right ...
Mulberry leaves are now coming from different parts of Waiheke island ...
Paolo Zavallone is not only remarkable for his impressive moustache, but that he's persona grata for those who are fed up with Celentano, but not with Italy. No moustache seen in Papillon Rouge, but this song positively would be a final touch to any ...
Paolo Zavallone is not only remarkable for his impressive moustache, but ...
Andrei Khrzhanovsky, the amazing wizard and great master of animation, makes films that seem to appeal neither to children nor to adults, but to the world as a whole. So does his philosophical parable “Butterfly”, which could be as likely ...
Andrei Khrzhanovsky, the amazing wizard and great master of animation, ...
Kazakhstan parasite wasps Mastrus ridens were put into New Zealand's orchards to execute a crucial mission, or simply to rid pipfruit trees of one of the most harmful pests, the codling moth @@Cydia pomonella@@. If they get this accomplished, New ...
Kazakhstan parasite wasps Mastrus ridens were put into New Zealand's ...
Everything you need for a good Sunday: year 1929, Judy Garland and a song of butterflies kissing buttercups. Goodnight! The Gumm Sisters, Where The Butterflies Kiss the Buttercups Goodnight (1929)
Everything you need for a good Sunday: year 1929, Judy Garland and a song ...
Twiga Cement (Tanzania Portland Cement Company, TPCC), manufacturer of portland cement in Tanzania, is about to build a butterfly farm at their Wazo Hill mining sites in Dar es Salaam, for to “improve biodiversity and ecological systems” of ...
Twiga Cement (Tanzania Portland Cement Company, TPCC), manufacturer of ...
The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto (梁祝小提琴協奏曲) written in 1958 by two composers He Zhanhao and Chen Gang is one of the most famous piece of Chinese orchestral music in China and beyond. This concerto is based on an old Chinese ...
The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto (梁祝小提琴協奏曲) written ...
A unique butterfly park will officially open in the next few months in Karnataka state, India. It was founded by college lecturer Sammilan Shetty and now located at Santhadi House in Beluvai village 8km off Moodbidri and 42km off Mangalore. This ...
A unique butterfly park will officially open in the next few months in ...
Habitual Sunday crosswords might be changed to this butterfly kaleidoscope in the “Papillon” music video by Union Jack, the trance collaboration between two musicians Simon Berry and Claudio Giussani. Say, to identify all the species shown, ...
Habitual Sunday crosswords might be changed to this butterfly kaleidoscope ...
Schwarzer Schmetterling (The Black Butterfly) is a song from the album series “Der Schwarze Schmetterling” by German rock band ASP (spelled “Ashp”). In a dark, dark town there was a dark, dark street... Where Alexander Spreng, the ASP ...
Repeat [On].
Chen Wei-shou can be called butterfly patriarch who headed Taiwan lepidoptera research. He now recalls him 6-year kid fascinated by the sight of “a flower that could move”. That was the starting point of his lifelong passion. Today Chen is ...
Evgeny, thanks, this was actually a guess of mine, concede it might be ...
We may never know whether the animal world celebrates Halloween or not, but if they actually did, the pink underwing moth's caterpillar (@@Phyllodes imperialis@@) could be among the first nominees for the best Halloween costume. Looking at this, ...
We may never know whether the animal world celebrates Halloween or ...
Japanese ska and butterflies: Motors band and their “Butterfly”. Motors, Butterfly (Nude, 2006)
Japanese ska and butterflies: Motors band and their ...
One might think that butterflies and brutal ska punk are hardly compatible. However, this critter is not that fragile as it may seem. Guys from American band Chilled Monkey Brains, Tallahassee, Florida, evidently appreciate such endurance and thus ...
One might think that butterflies and brutal ska punk are hardly ...
@@Aenetus virescens@@ is a moth of the family Hepialidae and one of the largest native moths of New Zealand. Puriri moth as it's called has a 15cm wingspan for what this happens to get mistaken for a bat. This moth spends nearly all its life in ...
Aenetus virescens is a moth of the family Hepialidae and one of the ...
A curious video from the National Geographic's “Untamed Americas” miniseries on how Arctiidae moths produce low frequency clicks to muffle the sonar that bats use to guide flight and prey. Thus a bat gets mislead and a moth masterly dodges the ...
A curious video from the National Geographic's “Untamed Americas” ...
Even Godzilla the Great grounded his mighty arms before the face of our huge and fearless hero. The thing is that he had no such magic “eyed” wings, which could seriously scare not only birds but even people. That's the thing!
Even Godzilla the Great grounded his mighty arms before the face of our ...
A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Requiem For The Static King, Part 1.
A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Requiem For The Static King, Part 1.
In 1965, when James Nebel was young, he got a large collection of butterflies and moths to keep and own. Then it was called the Anderson Collection and reckoned as the second largest private butterfly collection in Washington. It comprised about ...
In 1965, when James Nebel was young, he got a large collection of ...
17th Annual Texas Butterfly Festival will take place in Mission, Texas, US, from October 25th to 28th. The Rio Grande valley, where Mission is located, is a well-known US region for its biological diversity. Here four ecosystems of the four valley ...
17th Annual Texas Butterfly Festival will take place in Mission, Texas, ...
American rockabilly from 1958, Chuck Royal & The Sharpsters, You're Like a Butterfly. Chuck Royal & The Sharpsters, You're Like a Butterfly (1958)
American rockabilly from 1958, Chuck Royal & The Sharpsters, You're Like a ...
The cult American alternative rock band Sonic Youth is as well good at ace performances as at being self-ironic: they chose Stephen Hellweg's clip with puppets heavily strumming guitars as the best in the fan video contest for their song Drunken ...
The ending is especially ace.
This was as possible as to spot the well-done mount of an extinct dodo bird in the rubbish at a yard sale — barely ever. Tom Terzin, a developmental biologist from University of Alberta, Canada, never waited to discover a rarest well-preserved ...
This was as possible as to spot the well-done mount of an extinct dodo ...
Researchers from the University of Queensland, Australia, found out that caterpillar hair can cause foal death and abortions in Australian mares. Dr Judy Cawdell-Smith and Professor Wayne Bryden, from the UQ's School of Animal Studies, ...
Researchers from the University of Queensland, Australia, found out that ...
The Irish people are well-known for their bravery for many centuries, so is Claire Prendergast with her convincing guitar, which offers from this day forth “to advocate the rights of the caterpillar community”. Right after she's decapitated one ...
The Irish people are well-known for their bravery for many centuries, so ...
Folk music and the Bahá'í faith are bread and wine of an English band The Bird and the Butterfly, the Morning Prayer of which sounds as it's performed by true birds of paradise. The Bird and the Butterfly, Morning Prayer (Lighted Candle, ...
Folk music and the Bahá'í faith are bread and wine of an English band ...
The first IMAX 3D film 'Flight of the Butterflies' about the annual monarch butterfly (@@Danaus plexippus@@) migration recently premiered at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, US. The premiere gathered 400 ...
Well, welcome to our oecumenes!.. :--)
On October, 8th at 18:00 the North Indian River County Library in Sebastian, Florida (US), hosts a Pelican Island Audubon Society meeting 'Florida’s Endangered Butterflies: Agency Actions and In-Actions', to discuss how the U.S. Fish and ...
On October, 8th at 18:00 the North Indian River County Library in ...
Caterpillars also hang out, go to gigs and dance as all decent people. Say, to listen to Canadian brothers The Moffatts, which demonstrate how should a good caterpillar properly crawl. The sure thing! The Moffatts, Caterpillar Crawl (The Moffatts, ...
Caterpillars also hang out, go to gigs and dance as all decent people. ...
Butterflies are fairly nice and even wonderful, however shall we not forget that they all used to be caterpillars once, which were munching leaves, scaring kids, being scared themselves, hanging, crawling, stinging, snoozing and falling down, and ...
Butterflies are fairly nice and even wonderful, however shall we not ...
Every autumn when trees are ablaze with red, and early in the morning you can smell in the air the forthcoming winter, about billion of monarch butterflies (@@Danaus plexippus@@) go off on a long trip of about 3500 km from America and Canada to ...
Every autumn when trees are ablaze with red, and early in the morning ...
La Mariposa is a song from an American trio The Powder Kegs based in Philadelphia, PA (US). They play indie, folk and pop rock music occasionally enlivened with a trombone section by Dylan Hume. This song, as well as their whole EP 'Empty Side', is ...
La Mariposa is a song from an American trio The Powder Kegs based in ...
According to a new research, plants can “call for help” to spare themselves from the butterfly offspring as when the latter are just about to lay eggs. It's found out that plants start evolving scents and other volatile chemicals as a ...
Updated with BBC News video on how plants warn each other of danger. The ...
Plain but really fascinating song 'Vicky's Butterfly' from a Belgian band The Tritones, which you can also hear in a rather adult Koen Mortier's film 'Ex Drummer' (2007). The film is quite kinky, and to assume this rubric was about movies, the 'Ex ...
Plain but really fascinating song 'Vicky's Butterfly' from a Belgian band ...
While some of us spend workdays playing busy bees, a group of kids, namely 20, together with their parents next-to-last Thursday all went over the Oxbow Eco-Center what's in Port St. Lucie, St. Lucie County, Florida (US). There they were greeted ...
While some of us spend workdays playing busy bees, a group of kids, ...
Anna Maria Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulou, or simply Maria Callas, known worldwide for her greatest soprano voice, excellently performed the aria of Cio-Cio San from the Puccini's opera “Madama Butterfly”. It sounds as powerful as tragical their ...
Goes well. Would be better though with headphones or good loudspeakers...
Guantanamo is curiously not only a butterfly hotspot, but also the birthplace of Leyanis Lopez and, later, of her song 'Como La Mariposa'. She has the sort of voice that prompts you to surrender immediately, and with no resistance. If there could be ...
Guantanamo is curiously not only a butterfly hotspot, but also the ...
Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large travelling exhibition from the Canadian Museum of Nature is now at the Royal Alberta Museum (Edmonton) until September 3rd. The fantastic beauty and amazing biodiversity of moths in the Ottawa region captured Jim ...
Jim des Rivières' 'Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large' travelling ...
Researchers from the Florida Museum of Natural History documented 51 butterfly species at the Guantanamo bay US naval base, Cuba. The local wildlife surprisingly turned to be rather rich and abundant with different species. The naval base, which ...
Researchers from the Florida Museum of Natural History documented 51 ...
Another punk rock band, British also, chanting 'The Butterfly Song'. Splodgenessabounds, The Butterfly Song (Two Little Boys, 1980)
Another punk rock band, British also, chanting 'The Butterfly ...