通常我遇到可怕的昆蟲學文章經常不夠，我節省了積壓的未來系列. 這還沒有過去幾週的情況下, 我還沒有碰到過的可怕的媒體污物正常陣列. 也許我只是得到厭倦望而止步一樣仔細 – 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 本文 with the image below. Should be pretty easy to spot the weirdness (他們 do at least manage to point out that the moth is 不 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. 要么, 他們是? 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.
是啊, 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. 乾杯!