Genius of the Press XVII

Usually I come across horrible entomology articles regularly enough that I save a backlog for future series. This hasn’t been the case over the last few weeks, I haven’t come across the normal array of terrible media crud. Maybe I just get jaded and stop looking as carefullybut 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 see artikkel with the image below. Should be pretty easy to spot the weirdness (nad do at least manage to point out that the moth is mitte the LBAM (light brown apple moth)).

 

5 comments to Genius of the Press XVII

  • 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

  • Movie posters aside, death’s heads aren’t found on this side of the world. Või, 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.