Soviet Onion
Let me show you my sputnik.
You Laika what you see?
“The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast”. Poem by William Roscoe, published in Great Britain around 1860, artist unknown.
Deficit Omni Quid Nasciture. 2011. stone lithography
“everything that is born must die”
(Source: definekalamazoo)
n508_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.
Field book of insects
New York,G.P. Putnam’s sons,1918.
biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17499
here’s a cute silk moth waving hello.
he’s economically significant, being the primary producer of raw silk. they’re about two inches across and are fluffy and white. the silk moth has been largely domesticated and cannot live without human interference
She’s not waving hello. She’s hardcore dancing. Silk is so hardcore.
Oldtime Songster, the Wyoming Grig
Found among the high-elevation sagebrush of Wyoming, the sagebrush grig, or Cyphoderris strepitans, is one of the oldest insects living today. They date from the Triassic age, some 250 million years ago.
Grigs now survive in a few places in the Rockies and the Sichuan Province of China. They’re direct descendants of the family that some entomologists believe first developed complex courtship songs, and are the only modern insects that can sing at subfreezing temperatures.
(via Lost Worlds Survive in Living Fossils | Wired Science | Wired.com)
