Gewoonlik kom ek oor aaklige entomologie artikels gereeld genoeg dat ek spaar 'n agterstand vir toekomstige reeks. Dit is nie die geval oor die afgelope paar weke, Ek het nie gekom om oor die normale verskeidenheid van verskriklike media crud. Miskien kry ek net verveeld en ophou soek so noukeurig – maar hierdie week het ek selfs 'n motverwante raakgeloop regstelling van die Maui News. Hulle het hul fout reggemaak, maar moes die oorspronklike artikel geskrap het…
En vir hierdie week het ek gevind Hierdie artikel met die prent hieronder. Dit behoort redelik maklik te wees om die vreemdhede raak te sien (hulle doen darem daarin slaag om uit te wys dat die mot is nie die LBAM (ligbruin appelmot)).
That is /not/ what a death’s head hawkmoth pronotum looks like! I think it’s a clipping from the Silence of the Lambs movie poster.
~Kai
Kai’s got it…it IS from the movie poster, lol!
Movie posters aside, death’s heads aren’t found on this side of the world. Of, are they? I bet Jerry rues the day he reported his little LBAM find from his backyard. I know a couple organic farmer friends in Santa Cruz county who still curse his name, when they should be cursing Kawamura. For a couple months in 2008 we had airplanes spraying all night long, even though we’re supposedly within the boundaries of a national marine sanctuary. I love the title of the article.
yup, it is the poster! And if you actually look close enough the “skull” is a famous Dali photograph of nude women (yes some artistic nudity – nsfw?) ((depends on your work)).
The deaths head hawkmoth is not found in the US, it’s pretty restricted to southern Europe and Northern Africa.
I don’t think Jerry regrets reporting that moth, the damage that it is capable of could cost farmers tens of millions. A lot of people cause a ruckus over nothing about the spraying…but if we let it go unchecked the ecological damage from the pest could be far worse.
Who knew death’s heads were terrorists with WMDs? I found this while searching for something totally unrelated: http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/archives/2005_press_releases/112005/11182005.xml Figured it’d give you a good laugh. Cheers!