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Photo Friday: Faves of 2012
Faves of 2012, a set on Flickr. Over at Compound Eye, Alex Wild is curating submissions of nature and science themed “best of 2012″ photo sets. If you have some photos you’re proud o… more →
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Photo Friday: Faves of 2012
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wrote 4 months ago: Faves of 2012, a set on Flickr. Over at Compound Eye, Alex Wild is curating submissions of nature an … more →
Photo Friday: Wolf spider parasite
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wrote 7 months ago: I’m busy preparing my talk for the Entomological Society of Canada conference*, which is comin … more →
Photo Friday: Terrifically uncooperative jumping spider
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wrote 7 months ago: Ever since falling madly in love with the gorgeous big jumping spiders in Florida, I’ve been k … more →
ESO Bug Eye Photo Contest!
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wrote 7 months ago: The results of the Entomological Society of Ontario Bug Eye photo contest were announced last night! … more →
Photo Friday: Suck it, arachnophobia
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wrote 7 months ago: This installment of PF is a bit of a deviation, in that you’re getting VIDEOgraphy instead of … more →
Photo Friday: Glow-in-the-dark Scorpion
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wrote 8 months ago: Living in Canada affords nature-loving folks certain securities. With remarkably few exceptions, Can … more →
Photo Friday: My fave photos from BugShot 2012!
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wrote 8 months ago: I took about 800 photos over the course of the three-day BugShot workshop. I didn’t have as mu … more →
BugShot 2012!
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wrote 9 months ago: I am one excited geek right now: in just a few days, I’ll be hopping on a plane and heading do … more →
Photo Friday: Arctic pseudoscorpion
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wrote 9 months ago: As I mentioned on Wednesday, one of my fellow travelers (my advisor) was collecting pseudoscorpions … more →
Field season in the Yukon - part 2 (the fine art of collaboration)
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wrote 9 months ago: Now that the “oooh, aaaah” part of my field work is out of the way, let’s talk a b … more →
Photo Friday: a "fashionable urban spider"*
wrote 10 months ago: *credit for the title must go to Chris Buddle, who came up with the best possible description of thi … more →
Hey Geek, what's this? It bites!
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wrote 11 months ago: I received an email last week, originally written by Jim: Can either of you identify the bug in the … more →
Photo Friday: Jumping Spiders (Eris militaris)
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wrote 1 year ago: A wonderful thing happened yesterday: my labmate and fellow PhD candidate, Raphael, brought some of … more →
Photo Friday - Deer Tick (Ixodes scapularis)
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wrote 1 year ago: Lesson learned this week: people get really excited about parasites (holy page-hits, batman!!!) I … more →
Menacing crab spider with prey, focus-stacked
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wrote 1 year ago: I was very impressed with this spider, but then I really should stop being surprised by the ability … more →
I have a new flash. It makes me gleeful.
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wrote 1 year ago: So I went out and blew some dough on a gently used Canon 430EX I flash. It’s a little slower t … more →
"I dig my %^&* in her $%^& !!!" (Argiope aurantia)
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wrote 1 year ago: My wife and I were enjoying some post-ice-cream-cone time at a local playground with my sister-in-la … more →
Sneak Attack! (Goldenrod crab spider, Misumena vatia)
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wrote 1 year ago: Our gardens provide an excellent close-by space for bug hunting. Most days I do a “tour of th … more →
Forgotten Photo Friday: Aculepeira carbonarioides (Araneidae)
wrote 2 years ago: Today’s Forgotten Photo features an orb-weaving spider Aculepeira carbonarioides* (Araneidae) … more →
