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Raptor Wednesday
Dipping into Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, which celebrates its inexhaustible 400th year this year, I find in the glossary castril (kestrel) and tassel (tiercel, a male falcon). “[…]he is nobody that in the season hath not a hawk on his fist. […] The Persian kings hawk after butterflies with sparrows made to that…
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Some Ichneumonids
The superfamily Ichneumonoidea, the Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps, are a broad and diverse taxonomic collection of parasitic wasps. All these females are hunting for the anthropoids they parasitize. But, alas, they’re really hard to ID by photograph alone. (For instance, I have 78 iNaturalist observations in this superfamily, but only 14 are identified to species…
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In Praise of Meadows
The annual WordPress bill comes due this time of year. Which is why I solicit donations for this blog. It costs about $400 for domain and hosting per annum, so thank you for your past, present, and future support. I recommend Annelien De Dijn’s Freedom: An Unruly History, a look at how freedom and liberty…
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