সাধারণত আমি ভবিষ্যত সিরিজের জন্য একটি ব্যাকলগ সংরক্ষণ করার জন্য নিয়মিতভাবে ভয়ঙ্কর কীটতত্ত্ব নিবন্ধগুলি পাই. গত কয়েক সপ্তাহ ধরে এমনটা হয়নি, আমি ভয়ানক মিডিয়া ক্রুডের সাধারণ অ্যারের মধ্যে আসিনি. হয়তো আমি শুধু ক্লান্ত হয়ে পড়ি এবং সাবধানে তাকানো বন্ধ করি – but this week I even came across a moth related correction from the Maui News. They fixed their error, but must have deleted the original article…
And for this week I found এই নিবন্ধটি with the image below. Should be pretty easy to spot the weirdness (তারা do at least manage to point out that the moth is না the LBAM (light brown apple moth)).
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. বা, 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. চিয়ার্স!