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Your Path Made Manifest
Ant trails. Depending how you look at them, they’re tiny living rivers, unending highways of industry, pseudopods of super-organsisms, or just a bunch of half-brained haplodiploid hymenopterans with a fetish for each other’s footprints. They are viewed as a product … Continue reading
Chirp Across the Chasm
There simply is no insight more rewarding, lasting, and revealing than inquiry and discovery of our natural world through evidence and research. Seriously, how many days and nights have you hiked through a forest and wondered what it really sounded … Continue reading
Sing a Song for Stenopelmatus
Happy Birthday to me! In celebration, I want to share with you all a very special friend of mine, a beautiful and noble beast who is tragically loathed and feared by nearly everybody I know, even friends who otherwise love … Continue reading
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Tagged Birthday, cricket, Hopi, jerusalem cricket, Katsina, stenopelmatus, Susöpa
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Bethany Krull and the Surrogate World
There’s so much good stuff about Sculptor Bethany Krull’s works that I will have to restrain myself from displaying them all. Krull’s seeds, insects, and invertebrates are more than just a celebration of the beautiful forms found in nature, but … Continue reading
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Tagged ant, Bertram Chandler, Bethany Krull, cricket, hermit crab, sculpture
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In Which: I Eat All The Insects
Last night Mrs. Swarm and I visited the Headlands Center for the Arts to take part in a delicious multi-course meal presented by Monica Martinez, owner of Don Bugito, a new insect-themed food cart in San Francisco. The Headlands Center … Continue reading
Posted in cuisine, event
Tagged ant, cricket, Don Bugito, hemipteran, mealworm, Mónica Martínez, moth, Rosanna Yau, wax moth
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Monochrome Mashups: Hillier, Ernst and Mad Meg
Though an accomplished painter and illustrator of original works, Dan Hillier has become well-known for his inventive collages sourced from Dover Pictorial Archives, with a dose of Photoshoppery. His Lovecraftian combinations of prim ladies and writhing tentacles has even … Continue reading
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Tagged Amblypygi, art, beetle, cockchafer, collage, cricket, Dan Hillier, engraving, insect, locust, Mad Meg, Max Ernst, Rembrandt, stellanova, wasp, Weevil
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