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By: Via Negativa » Blog Archive » Stalking the horned fungus beast

Via Negativa » Blog Archive » Stalking the horned fungus beast — Wed, 03 May 2006 19:08:36 +0000

[...] A brilliant green six-spotted tiger beetle lands on the trail in front of me, and I go into the photographer’s crouch (see photo in Friday’s post). This is quite possibly the most-photographed beetle species in the world, Steve says. He adds that when he was a kid, he used to have to go to the Scotia Barrens near State College to find any tiger beetles, but thirty years later, Cicindela sexguttata has become a common resident here on the mountain. I wonder if that might not be due to increase in available prey. As a forest matures, it becomes structurally more diverse, with more forest openings and fallen woody debris, and insect numbers and diversity increase correspondingly. [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 02 May 2006 23:39:15 +0000

Thanks, Anne.
it’s our only home!
If everyone believed that, the world might be a much saner place.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 02 May 2006 17:17:09 +0000

paths and perspectives. beautiful. it’s our only home!

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:40:15 +0000

Thanks, Sylph.

Hi, Zhoen.

Peter – A built-in aggregator with fully functional access to comments – gol-LEE! To be honest, I didn’t realize you can’t drag and drop icons with IE. I just started doing it recently.

Since Firefox is built with open-source software, can Microsoft really be said to be stealing? “Parasitizing” would be more accurate I think. Possibly “sucking the lifeblood out of.”

Dick – Thanks. I didn’t think about it, but you’re right – it is a mandala!

Beetle larvae are very under-studied, according to my brother. I’ll probably have more about them in a couple of days. I imagine that the patterns formed by their tunneling result from a combination of factors, including ergonomic efficiency, the availability of nutrients and the hunting patterns of woodpeckers. In other words, I have no clue.

By: Dick

Dick — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:35:12 +0000

Fabulous photos again, Dave. The dandelion closedup looks like something out of a mandalla. Is there a neat prosaic reason why the little tunnelling creature didn’t burrow in a straight line?

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:53:31 +0000

Well, I know nothing. Bloglines does the same thing with the comments link. I just never noticed it.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:52:07 +0000

Beautiful photos, Dave. How big a hole did you have to stick your head in to get the second dandelion to look so statesmanlike?

This is my first comment from the aggregator built into Internet Explorer 7.0, which came out two days ago in beta. It’s the first aggregator I’ve seen where you don’t have to go to the site to comment. I’ve been using Firefox for two years now, and I will still use it primarily, but the ease with which one may add a feed by clicking an icon at the top of the browser in 7.0 is appealing. Also, when you click an RSS logo on a site, it doesn’t give you code but an aggregator page with a sign-up link. Of course it has stolen some of Firefox’s innovations (e.g., tabbed browsing, multiple search engines in one window) but not all (e.g., drag-and-drop icons). IE still has the annoying click when you turn a page, and it still seems slower.

By: Zhoen

Zhoen — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:16:50 +0000

(o)

By: the sylph

the sylph — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:08:39 +0000

marvelous, dave…
how your camera sees the world!