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Once upon a time Malcolm McLaren presented to Britain a punk rock band Sex Pistols, and himself either performed rather provocative for England as he was especially well-known for being pretty progressive and innovative as to the music or art in ...
Once upon a time Malcolm McLaren presented to Britain a punk rock band Sex Pistols, and himself either performed rather provocative for England as he was especially ...
One more butterfly hunting season is nearly over and it gradually turnes into home sessions with sorting the stuff, repairing nets and studying identification guides. But also this is the perfect time for visiting museums where the season is open ...
One more butterfly hunting season is nearly over and it gradually turnes ...
Philippine (supposedly) band Tambok and the Papilion song, kind of those that stick in your head once heard. Tak ma bok bok! Tambok, Papilion
Philippine (supposedly) band Tambok and the Papilion song, kind of those ...
Federal inspectors in Halifax, Canada, search 2—3 ships a week checking for signs of invasive Asian gipsy moth (@@Lymantria dispar@@). This supposedly can do serious damage to Maritime forests. The checking procedure may take place only at the ...
Federal inspectors in Halifax, Canada, search 2—3 ships a week ...
Irish musical ensemble Celtic Woman and fiddler Máiréad Nesbitt performing “The Butterfly” (Celtic Woman, 2005). Celtic Woman, The Butterfly
Irish musical ensemble Celtic Woman and fiddler Máiréad Nesbitt ...
“The Magic of Butterfly Reinvention at MGM” is the first butterfly exhibition on Macau, China, to open on May, 16th in a new “Butterfly Pavilion” built at the MGM Macau resort. During the next six months the exhibition will be displaying ...
Over 200,000 people visited “The Magic of Butterfly Reinvention at ...
Cultivating pomegranate in India is a quite profitable business. In recent years this has been rapidly developing and being intensified with considerable irrigation entailed increase in pests. One of the most harmful is a gossamer-winged ...
Cultivating pomegranate in India is a quite profitable business. In ...
Beside that this ace song “Butterfly” by an American comedian and songwriter Clarence Reid (Blowfly) will surely rock an entomologist's day as well as one of any other 'ist, it also mentions animals and by that gives us all infinite pleasure. ...
Splendid. Even better considering that was in 1973.
Let's start the weekend with a song 'Poison Planet' by a Brazilian electronic band Blue Butterfly, playing cyberpunk, gothic, dark and industrial music. Blue Butterfly, Poison Planet (Poison Planet, 2008)
Let's start the weekend with a song 'Poison Planet' by a Brazilian ...
This Saturday, August 25th, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Upper Schuylkill Valley Park in Royersford, Pennsylvania (US), hosts an annual butterfly celebration to come all the family. Come here to know more about lepidoptera life cycle and plants they're ...
This Saturday, August 25th, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Upper Schuylkill Valley ...
Today we've got another trio, also performing butterflies. Dmitry Kharatyan, Alexandr Zhiltsov and Nikolai Konstantinov singing “Butterflies” from the good movie Rozygrysh (Vladimir Menshov, 1976). “Butterflies” from the movie Rozygrysh
Today we've got another trio, also performing butterflies. Dmitry ...
The Fukushima 2011 nuclear disaster caused abnormalities in butterfly species on site, reporting a group of Japanese researches. “We conclude that artificial radionuclides from the Fukushima (No. 1) nuclear power plant caused physiological and ...
Whipped away from tests to Vladivostok.
Italian band Papillon Swing Trio performs music from the movie Latcho drom (Tony Gatlif, 1993). Papillon Swing Trio, Tchavolo Swing
Italian band Papillon Swing Trio performs music from the movie Latcho drom ...
Norwegian band a-ha and Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah), 2010. a-ha, Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)
Norwegian band a-ha and Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah), ...
Butterflies were sung of quite a few times, and some pieces made fairly well. Loads of beautiful music all around, of which good share honours butterflies. The new website rubric tagged music will feature musicians and bands that named themselves, ...
More! More!
Dogs are known to be rather brainy. Seems not that much to beat the samurai resurrected of the dead (see part 6). So this Irish terrier fails to catch... an idea. Argh.
Dogs are known to be rather brainy. Seems not that much to beat the ...
Biologist, tropical greenhouse Fitness House Group of Companies (Russia, Saint Petersburg) has an opening for a biologist to keep a tropical greenhouse. Duties include care for greenhouse butterflies and plants, leading excursions for visitors, ...
Biologist, tropical greenhouse Fitness House Group of Companies ...
A video from the Smithsonian Institution on how to wash and dry small and large insects of different species using fractionator. This might be useful for preparing insects caught in Malaise traps and pan traps. Subtitles added (the CC button).
A video from the Smithsonian Institution on how to wash and dry small and ...
Those who do love to work in the garden or grow plants on a balcony, for to enjoy seasonally with a cheery, vivid greenery, sooner or later have to deal with some kind of a pest. The latter, as a rule, vexatiously damages the best and abundantly ...
Jaws (1975).
This Saturday, July 28th, Prairie Wetlands Learning Center arranges a short learning class named Moths at Midnight. This will take place in Minnesota (US), near Fergus Falls, from 10 to 11:30 p.m. Apparently, moths are not as popular as their ...
America is ahead of the rest, again.
Phuket Butterfly Garden Once during our trip in Phuket we got an idea to go see Phuket Butterfly Garden being allured by an advertisement which read it was a world's best one with over 40 species of butterfly mated there. Yet before we asked a ...
Few days ago the post was updated with photos.
Tweed River Art Gallery (Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia) presents a new exhibition for insect lovers named Beauty and Nature: Art of the Scott sisters. There you can see butterflies and moths, caterpillars and plants depicted in paintings and ...
Tweed River Art Gallery (Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia) presents a new ...
So when it's the best time to slack off? Summer, obviously. The thing is that how to do it featly, even making some use of it. Butterfly walk might be the best activity of the kind. Southborough Open Land Foundation arranges Butterfly Walk this ...
Not here again...
Garden designer David Snow from Thousand Oaks, Southern California, US, insisted that monarch caterpillar (@@Danaus plexippus@@) would be removed from a pesticide label. David Snow considered it wrong that the chemical company Ortho put the ...
Caterpillars actually can be rather harmful, not too much though. Last ...
On Friday the 13th evil shall triumph, so does it, and the hero is to die, alas. However, no one can win all the time, like in the previous part 5, if it's fair and square. This Australian emerald-spotted tree frog was quite fast and sure-handed, no ...
Nice to watch before bed.
Supposedly, the smallest moth in the world is now at Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis. The other day senior museum scientist Steve Heydon was sorting insects collected during his expedition to the Democratic Republic of ...
Supposedly, the smallest moth in the world is now at Bohart Museum of ...
The British company Oxitec “updated” diamondback moths (@@Plutella xylostella@@) by sterilizing males to reduce crop loss. Oxitec researchers made genetically modified sterile males which are to mate with non-laboratory, “wild” females of ...
The British company Oxitec “updated” diamondback moths (Plutella ...
Bombs and other explosives leave around an invisible chemical trace. In airports and other common places these microparticles, which dangling in the air, are detected by security dogs which has a special, trained nose. Yet such dogs are rather ...
Perfect male!
There is an amazing place near Nairobi, the capital of Kenya — Karura forest recently opened to visitors. Kenyan photographer Karue Wachira made pictures of the forest butterflies, which can be seen today at The Butterflies of Karura Forest 2012 ...
There is an amazing place near Nairobi, the capital of Kenya — Karura ...
Unlike the preceding part 4, today's even fight one on one nearly ended in victory, save suddenly the near-winner got disloyally attacked from the rear. Confidence lost and the strong, powerful opponent has helplessly run off. If perpetual dominance ...
Unlike the preceding part 4, today's even fight one on one nearly ended in ...
Moths are as marvelously diverse as wrongly misattended. They get rare minutes of fame when we enjoy our tea outside in summer accompanied by their shadows fluttering around lights. In fact, in the animal world those slight shadows play a role way ...
Blocked.
Senior Supporter Officer for Butterfly Conservation, Dorset Butterfly Conservation’s Head Office in Dorset (UK) has an opening for a Senior Supporter Officer. Butterfly Conservation is a leading wildlife charity working to conserve ...
Senior Supporter Officer for Butterfly Conservation, Dorset Butterfly ...
In Cumberland House Natural History Museum things go normally just as butterflies keep emerging from their cocoons. This process will last May to September in the museum butterfly house where a permanent high temperature kept. Other museum joys ...
In Cumberland House Natural History Museum things go normally just as ...
Moths, like many other insects, are led by smells when they seek for food, egg-laying site and, certainly, a mate. University of Utah recent research reveals how moth males prepare themselves to take a flight towards females that effuse ...
Moths, like many other insects, are led by smells when they seek for ...
Fail again! Swanky penguins literally lost their balance trying to catch a butterfly. Tailcoats off, hairdos ruined, someone had to take an unplanned dive, another got a dangerous peck from its neighbour. Guys just should've have checked up ...
Looking forward to the next series :--)
Ted Edwards was so earnest in studying taxonomy that eventually appeared to be a honorary fellow of the Australian National Insect Collection and was also named on the Queen's Birthday Honours list for the services to taxonomy. Over 50 years Ted ...
Ted Edwards was so earnest in studying taxonomy that eventually appeared ...
Below you may find the list of Russian universities which offer education in the field of entomology. If you feel like a certain Russian uni (college, academy) should be put in this list and you're sure it lacks such, please mention its name and ...
Both added.
Scientist I — Insecticide/Nematicide Research & Commericialization, AgraQuest, Inc. (Davis, CA, US) Insects and mites cause significant crop losses in California, as well as other regions of the world. AgraQuest, Inc. is a successful ...
Scientist I — Insecticide/Nematicide Research & Commericialization, ...
The New Zealand’s largest independent conservation organisation Forest & Bird calls for help to name a newly discovered moth. This striped moth was found on the Denniston Plateau in March and still lacks a name. It was discovered during the ...
Forest and bird!
Today the one eager to wrestle the moth is a lizard (see pt. 1 and 2. Bet on the moth's win, and you won't lose. The perfect one — mighty and powerful, neither superhero nor supermachine, just an ordinary Sphingidae. Hit but staying alive!
Music is impressive indeed...
Entomologist for Moscow Butterfly House Moscow Butterfly House has an open Entomologist vacancy. He/she is expected to care of the House's insects such as spiders, bugs, lizards, cockroaches and others. The position implies 12 4-hour working days ...
Entomologist for Moscow Butterfly House Moscow Butterfly House has an ...
The Butterfly House The Panhandle Butterfly House in Florida, USA, 24 May opened the new season. Butterflies are in abundance, but the guides do not suffice. Volunteers are needed to conduct tours and educational programs for visitors to the ...
The Butterfly House The Panhandle Butterfly House in Florida, USA, ...
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is to teach state residents how to identify butterflies. Everyone is welcome to join a special butterfly identification training that starts off this June. Those who will take part are also ...
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is to teach state ...
Look back: your own home may host not only inobnoxious moths but also an insect drone watching you. Here it goes, latest Israel's indoor surveillance project — a small “butterfly” that weighs just 20 grams, a unique and perfect spy which has ...
Look back: your own home may host not only inobnoxious moths but also an ...
BASF: Research Station Entomologist for the Agricultural Research Station in Dinuba, California BASF SE is the largest chemical company in the world headquartered in Germany. The BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than ...
BASF: Research Station Entomologist for the Agricultural Research ...
More than 70 scientists from 9 institutions including The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, sequenced the genome of the Postman butterfly (@@Heliconius melpomene@@), a favorite one among collectors and researchers since the very Victorian ...
More than 70 scientists from 9 institutions including The Smithsonian ...
Approximately 300 million red admiral (@@Vanessa atalanta@@) butterflies moved from Windsor (Canada, Ontario) to New Brunswick. Such a massive butterfly migration through Eastern Canada was caused by the unusually warm winter in North America. ...
Approximately 300 million red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterflies ...
Lately the web was charmed with photos of the amazing jewel caterpillar looking like a juicy, translucent, gelatinous gummy bear. One to be blamed is Gerardo Aizpuru, a scuba instructor and amateur wildlife photographer, who shot this caterpillar ...
Those ants behaved like country pooches, surrounded that jewel Dalceridae ...
The Olympic Games may be ruined with bad guests that are expected to be there right in time. Whilst the authorities are settling up missile weapons on the city roofs to protect (everybody) against potential terrorist attacks, the real threat may ...
I wonder if there is cow parsnip in the UK, ...
James Pearce's love with entomology began in his childhood when he was exploring Mill Creek Canyon with a gossamer net to find butterflies. Then his interest took him to study science and medicine particularly yet he didn't quit collecting ...
James Pearce's love with entomology began in his childhood when he was ...