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Saturday chores – OMGSHINY
Saturday morning in the country means “time for chores”. On the menu today was: Our main source of heat in the chillier months is our woodstove. As much as we looooove heating this way (the cozy...
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Sewer WHAT?
(Image from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Clogmia_Albipunctata_or_moth_fly.jpg) I’ve invented a fun new game at work. It’s called Gross Out Your Colleagues With Bug-related TMI. This is how you...
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Dead Dipteran…Art
Current job title: Doggy Nurse. Job description: administer antibiotics, probiotics, anti-inflamatories, pain-killers; use of peanut butter is non-optional. Apply hot compresses. Design clever...
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Goldenrod gall fly (Eurosta solidaginis)
I remember finding out about these when I was a first year Journalism undergrad. I was watching the latest lecture-on-tape of my elective class: “Natural History of Ontario”. * The instructor** pulled...
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Photo Friday: Soldier fly (Stratiomys badia)
On Tuesday, my wife and I were doing one of our daily “tour of the grounds” (i.e., checking out the progress in the gardens), and she said, “Hey, look at that bee“. A large, hairy, heavy-bodied,...
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Hey Geek, what’s this? Creepy long-tailed water thingie…
My Twitter feed alerted me to a new interaction – I’d been flagged in a tweet by @MarconiRebus containing a most intriguing photo: An earlier tweet provided a little more info: Whoa. That is one weird...
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Photo Friday: one-shot wonder
When working with live insects in the field, one of the biggest challenges is to get the shot before the bug…bugs off. Sometimes you only get one or two chances before your subject is suddenly nowhere...
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