This week’s (as if I keep up with this weekly) GOP was sent to me by commenter “Iškrypęs“. Thank you for the contribution! Makes like a whole lot easier, and I strongly encourage future submissions from other readers.
For those new to my blog – the Genius of the Press series is a contest to see who can identify the blatant errors of the press. So what’s wrong with the article below?
From the pages of Science News:
We get this gem.
Thats a horse-headed grasshopper nymph. Maybe Proscopia luceomaculata?
Bingo – although you have a better species guess than I had come up with! It is indeed a Proscopiidae, a very strange group of Orthoptera that look like sticks. It’s a shame that Science News would get an order of insects wrong, but not surprising.
Those things are royally weird. I hope I can run into one for real some day.
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