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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
On a recent trip to the Central Florida Zoo, I ventured into the Massey Insect Zoo. I can't believe I almost missed the installation of giant ants on the pipe near the high ceiling:
It was really great. How big are the ants? Scroll down on this page and you can ...
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Time Magazine features a 14 photo series, The Fascinating, Frightening World of Insects. They're from a new book, Unseen Companions: Big Views of Tiny Creatures, by David and Madeleine Spears. That last link, to the publisher's site, allows you to look at the book page by page, ...
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
I do so love the ARS Image Library.
That's the Agricultural Research Service for all you non-nerds.
When you get tired of that site, you can venture over to the USDA Online Photography Center, which still looks like a refugee from a 1995 html how-to guide but is really a very cool ...
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Flipping through the latest issue of Make I found a kindred soul.
Dutch Sound Sculptor Jeroen Diepenmaat had his father taxidermy birds that he then mounted on record players, using the beak as a needle. The LPs he played were of birdsongs. Fantastic.
Some images here and here.
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
JochenB's "Ant Portraits" flickr set.
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
I (heart) ants!
Location: Cody, Wyoming.
Images here and here courtesy of the ever-awesome [tag]Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette[/tag], who is starting to think I'm a stalker I've thanked her so many times for teaching a workshop I attended. It was seriously cool, though. You'd still be thanking her, too.
Speaking of Elizabeth: She ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
[tag]Geekdad[/tag] has some great macro-photos of [tag]harvester ants[/tag] as part of a post affirming the coolness of the [tag]antworks[/tag] [tag]antfarms[/tag] mentioned in this post.
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Armyants.org hasn't been updated in years, but there are some creepy photos.
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Lots of pretty pictures at Myrmecos.net, Alex Wild's [tag]insect photography[/tag] website. I direct you specifically the ant section, of course, but I must say I'm quite taken by the [tag]Scarabaeiformia[/tag] gallery as well.
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