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An Archaeological Mystery
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- Links 30 September 2022
- Houses
- Geghard Monastery, Armenia
- Strawberry Hill Flower Show
- Richard Overy, "Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial...
- The Nakagin Capsule Tower is Finally Gone
- Putin Follows Stalin, Again
- RIP Hilary Mantel
- Fascism and Hobbits
- Links 23 September 2022
- A Field Day in Washington, DC
- On Studying Algebra and Geometry
- The Faith of the Simulator
- What Does Joe Biden Believe In? Science.
- Who is Defending Lyman, and Why?
- Links 16 September 2022
- Ukraine's Offensive and War in Public
- Solar + Wind is Not Enough
- More Ukraine
- Putin's Situation
- Conservatives, Liberals, and the Dangerous World
- Needless Words
- Ukrainian Onslaught Continues
- Links 9 September 2022
- Ukraine Update 9 September 2022
- Pictish Symbol Stones at the Meigle Museum, Scotland
- Keeping the Dead from Walking
- Chileans Reject a Proposed New Constitution
- Electric Rickshaws and Scooters are Taking Over India
- Casina Pio IV
- AI Wins Digital Art Prize
- Persistence of Social Stratification through Revol...
- Links 2 September 2022
- Questions that Lead to Love
- David Weiller, Insect Camouflage
- Not Being Seen
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
1 comment:
"And below, a caterpillar that carries its own fake leaf around."
The way this was phrased confused me, so I clicked through to make sense of it.
It's not a "fake leaf" - these creatures are bagworms, which use silk to create "casings" for themselves out of environmental flotsam, usually small bits of plants (often somewhat woody bits), with a great variety in what is used depending on species and environment. This particular bagworm builds a casing out of (quite real) dead leaves.
"Fake leaves" would be more appropriate to refer to stick bugs and other phasmids, where the body of the insect itself is adapted to be leaf shaped and colored, but is not in fact an actual leaf.
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