When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn’t notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. – Albert Einstein. These are black beetles about 0.2 – 0.8 inches in size. The Family Tenebrionidae includes a number of genera and species that […]
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You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, that “I breathe when I sleep” is the same thing as “I sleep when I breathe”!’ Lewis Carrol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This is a rodent that is widely found throughout eastern Europe, the Balkan region, and Central
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We were generally told that centipede bites were not fatal, but two informants said that they each heard of a person dying following a centipede bite; a young boy and a priest, but were unable to provide specific details. Field Observations on three scolopendrid centipedes from Mauritius and Rodrigues (Indian Ocean). Lewis et al. 2010.
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Photo: Heidi Rockney, Burkey Museum People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like the Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards. Gary Larson. Garter snakes in general are the most likely snake to encounter in North America the common garter snake
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This is an eastern U.S. fish – I went to undergraduate (NJ) and graduate school (MD) back east and worked back there for another 8 years (with one summer in AK) before I landed back in Seattle for good, so I’ll throw in some interesting eastern species now and then. The Percidae family includes the
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