Granted, arthropods are weird, all of them, what with entirely too many legs and a tendency to end up just where you don't need or want them. But the one that met its end in my bathroom last night was one for the record books ( Read more... )

Excrement does have some limited uses. For example, for some organisms, it can be food; for others, it can become dowries for their maggots. And, of course, there is the ever-popular use of feces as an ointment used to roll in in order to raise one's annoyance factor inside the house to astronomical levels, as is true of certain breeds of dogs ( Read more... )

In the video that goes with the article linked below, the narrator repeatedly pronounces "puss" (for "puss caterpillar, so called because of its coating of soft-appearing fur that makes it look like a tiny, legless kitten) as if it were spelled "pus." "Puss" refers to a cat; "pus" to oozing fluid consisting of dead bacteria that have infected a ( Read more... )

Two inspections of my apartment later, it was determined that I do not have bedbugs. The first time they brought the bedbug-sniffing dog to check it out, and the second, it was a gentleman who checked by eyeball because the dog couldn't get to three sides of the bed, thanks to the wall it abuts and the bed curtains and furniture around it. The ( Read more... )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/12/half-female-half-male-butterfly_n_895582.html#s303094&title=Monkey_Photographs_Self

Is this Madame Or Monsieur Butterfly? A rare half-female, half-male ( Read more... )

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/fieldnotes/2015438803_summer_the_pleasure_of_long_grass.html

Living in the city, it becomes rare to see grass actually grown to the point that it can set up a nice fat seed head. ( Read more... )

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015387489_solstice22m.html

By Lynda V. Mapes

Seattle Times staff reporter


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