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Posts tagged entomology

Mar 14

Incredible!

This Woolly Bear Caterpillar lives in the Arctic and no matter how fast it eats, it can never gather enough food in one summer to turn into a moth. In winter it freezes solid and awakes four months later to start eating again. This happens year after year, but eventually a very special spring arrives. At the age of 14 it weaves a silk cocoon and becomes a moth. When it emerges the moth only has a few days to find a partner and mate. (Frozen Planet - BBC)


Sep 13

Nabokov

Interesting sentence of the day:

The Harvard Museum still possesses Nabokov’s collection of male blue butterfly genitalia.