It isn't easy preparing arthropods for display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Entomologists can stick a pin through the exoskeletons, the rigid outer surface of all arthropods, of some the creatures to be displayed with little trouble. It isn't so easy with those whose outer casings are either so soft they must be soaked in alcohol to stiffen them or so hard they require a pair of forceps to force the pins through.
Last week I went to Crab College, in conjunction with the Crab Festival taking place through February at the Market Street restaurants and fish markets. I even received a diploma, a Certificate of Crabulation, that states that I'm now a scholar in "Arthropoda/Crustacea/Malacostraca/ Decapoda/Pleocyemata/Brachyrua." It sounds like something the Wizard of Oz would bestow; but hey, I really did learn something.
In the movie, Field of Dreams, the premise was "If you build it, they will come," The "it" in that case was a baseball diamond and the "they" were baseball players from the past. The same assumption holds true in gardening: If you plant it, they (insects) will come. Every Spring, having forgotten my losses from previous years, I feel the urge to garden, but believe me, the "force" is not with me, it's with thousands of six-legged critters that somehow not only know the exact time I plant something, but what I'm planting as well, and no matter what I put in the ground, it seems there is an insect that specifically likes it as a "delicacy." Also, sometimes these bugs will bring to the table, exotic cousins that I have never seen before and hope to never see again.
HUNTINGTON - To prevent rare plants from being devoured by things that creep and crawl, officials at the Huntington Museum of Art rely on - wait for it - things that creep and crawl! Hidden among the orchids, the fruit trees and the fragrant plants of the museum's C. Fred Edwards Conservatory is a carefully balanced collection of free-range predatory critters, released specifically to feed on insects and arthropods that feed on plants.
Cynthia Thrasher was ecstatic when she found a trilobite as a child and even more enthused when she dug up a crinolin as an adult. Trilobites, a fossil group of extinct marine arthropods that resembles potato bugs, and the crinoid, known as a sea lily or feather-star, are on display in the new fossil and artifact exhibit, "Treasures All Around Us," in Sewickley Public Library.
..., and trapping or killing, target arthropods. Pheromone traps are intended to achieve pest cont...
Early mornings mid-August get a chill snap to them that foreshadows September and indicates warbler weather -- warbler migration weather. A trickle slowly builds through the last week of August. By then you can stare at almost any deciduous tree and see the flutter of the leaves, branch by branch, as these small passerine birds hunt for insects and other arthropods.
LISBON FALLS - The Lisbon Library Department has announced the beginning of the Wings, Stings and Leggy Things Summer Reading Program for children ages 5 to young adult on Wednesday, June 25. Kids will discover the world of insects through the Chewonki program's Bugmobile. The children will be introduced to the characteristics of the four major groups of arthropods through the use of models, activities and live specimens.
... are generally transmitted by arthropods (e.g., ticks and mosquitoes) and produce infection...
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