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• Are Stick Insects a Pet or Pest?

  
  NicheUltra Dot Com — Authority: 141
  Stick insects have the military skills of camouflage and defense. These skills include giving of defensive odors, spraying harmful chemicals, mimicking branches, changing color, and faking their own deaths. However, even with this array of defenses from their predators the stick insect is vulnerable to attack from ...
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• Venomous Aussie redback spiders invading Japan

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 528
  Yahoo News 25 Nov 09;TOKYO (AFP) – Australias venomous redback spiders are on the march in Japan, where they are believed to have arrived years ago as stowaways on cargo ships, a wildlife expert warned Wednesday.The creepy-crawlies, named after their fiery markings, have infested the Osaka region and are drawing ...
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• Insects have good taste.

  
  ilikedginger — Authority: 100
  Today I was having lunch with some old pals from Wachovia, when this mantid chose to jump straight to my breasts and crawl up my neck. And then it posed for a photo. It was smart to jump on me, rather than my lunch companions.
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• The Compassionate Ant

  
  Reconnect With Nature Blog — Authority:
  Note from Con Slobodchikoff: This is a post by guest author Randall Johnson, who has contributed a number of posts and comments to this blog. I remember growing up hearing and reading about the proverbial wisdom of ants. If you check the Old Testament, Proverbs 6:6-8 tell us: “Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider ...
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• Photography: Nocturnal Life in the Amazon Jungle

  
  Wend Blog — Authority: 544
  A night hike in the Amazon Rainforest is mind-blowing. You’re literally surrounded by a wildlife symphony – the croaking of a toad, the sound of a spider crawling or a bat flapping its wings. The nocturnal Amazonian residents come alive. Enter their world through these images. Click on the thumbnails to see the ...
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• TREE #2 OF 2009 – TREE FUCHSIA (HALLERIA LUCIDA)

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 112
  The tree fuchsia (halleria lucida) has been appointed as one of the two rare trees of the year for 2009, by the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs. This beautiful tree, with its lush, wide-spreading canopy has shiny, bright green leaves and is an indigenous evergreen tree.  Birds love to gather in this ...
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• Giant Water Bug

  
  Myrmecos Blog — Authority: 423
  Belostoma sp. water bug, Illinois I’m so used to taking photos of fast-moving ants and beetles that a sedentary insect comes as something of a relief.  Instead, the challenge with this Belostoma giant water bug was lighting the shot. Aquariums are prone to reflections and dust on the glass.  I arranged a ...
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• One on One with Dropsonic

  
  The Silver Tongue — Authority: 146
  Dropsonic is that spectacular underground band that can’t find their niche in the indie scene, because they’re too rock.  And while the major labels love what the band is doing, the music is just not mainstream enough to be considered.  So, how does a band that gets multiple comparisons to rock-Gods like Led ...
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• Memory of summer

  
  Wild Light | Wildlife Photography | Insect Art | Bird Art | Honey Bee Art — Authority: 120
  A memory of summer, a butterfly accidentally introduced to North America, the Cabbage White, before the dust was brushed from its wings. The dark spots mark it a female.
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• Graffiti Snails in London!

  
  DeClubz - The Weird and Bizarre Blog — Authority: 434
  How cool would it be if snails were naturally sprayed with nice graffiti like this one? – link Post from: DeClubz - The Weird and Bizarre Blog Graffiti Snails in London! graffiti snails , london , Weird and Bizarre , Weird Design , Weird Graffiti , Weird Insects
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• Look Inside the Specimen Cabinet of a Charles Darwin Colleague

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 697
  Have you ever seen a Victorian naturalists collections cabinet? I have such a cabinet, purchased years ago, at my house. Using a kit, I also put together a more modern-day version way back in the 1970s. Maybe you have a ...
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• TREE #1 OF 2009 – MONKEY THORN (ACACIA GALPINII)

  
  Kingfisher Landscaping — Authority: 112
  The monkey thorn (acacia galpinii) has been appointed as one of the trees of the year for 2009, by the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs. This fast growing tree – with its lush, light green foliage – can grow up to 36 meters in height and has a wide, spreading crown.  It is a deciduous tree, which ...
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• Ways to Fight Bedbugs

  
  Naked News — Authority: 175
  Once you have a bedbug infestation, you must start fighting these in order to control their spread. Bedbugs can travel from one furniture or room to another. There have also been cases of bedbug infestations in multi-unit apartments, condominiums, or buildings. Bedbugs can be transferred easily: through clothing, ...
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• Brace Yourselves – OVO From Cirque du Solei is Opening on Black Friday

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 530
  Oh no, it’s OVO !  The latest production from Cirque du Soleil is buzzing our way down at the Great AT&T Park Parking Lot south of SoMA in the “emerging” Mission Bay part of town. Looks like the opener at 8:00 PM on November 27th is sold out, but seats are available for shows a few days ...
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• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Batsu (and more)

  
  toycutter — Authority: 530
  Vinyl toys by NECA artist Geoffrey Trapp - - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Batsu, The Penguin Munny, and bug-covered Munny. *Previously: Another Clint Eastwood Mighty Mugg . * Buy NECA toys at eBay.
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• BEE Inbreeding!

  
  Stephen Bodio's Querencia — Authority: 469
  I know that there have been a lot of furious discussions over DOG inbreeding. But now it appears that the honeybee crisis may well be BEE inbreeding!
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• Tying the Carey Special (Stillwater Dragon or Caddis Imitation)

  
  SwittersB & Fly Fishing — Authority: 138
  This a great stillwater pattern popular in the Pacific NW and B.C. and for all I know beyond. I have never fished it for stream born insects but imagine it could serve well as an October Caddis. The dubbed body can be replaced by a wound body of yarn, chenille or the classic…peacock herl. The hardest part of the fly ...
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• The "drifter" and the "bug man."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 755
  The Daily News reports, in straightforward prose: The straphanger killed by an exterminator gone mad was a mentally ill germophobe who used his bag to keep people at a safe distance, friends said Sunday. "He didnt like people to sit next to him," said Phenix Hall, a volunteer who befriended Dwight Johnson at a ...
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• The Bee Convoy (Reclaiming The Fruits of their Labor)

  
  Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) — Authority: 541
  tags: insects , comedy , humor , bentekr , animation , streaming video This video shows honeybees at work, and suddenly discovering a pot of honey on a picnic table. What do they do? This video follows the secret life of these bees. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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• Insects!

  
  Autonomous Artisans... handmade finds — Authority: 116
  Its getting cold outside and all the insects that spent the summer rushing about going about their business have disappeared from view. Where do they all go? Where do they hide away until the warmth of spring lets them know its time to get busy again? Their disappearance is one of the reasons I get down in Winter. A ...
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