A moth of a different colour

Dances With Moths at Woodsong has posted a lovely picture of a luna moth for St. Patrick’s Day.

Spring equinox!

Or vernal equinox, to be technical. This is the magic moment when the days are as long as the nights. It’s happening March 21st at 7 minutes after midnight, or here in Eastern (early Daylight) Time at 20:07.

David Darling has this nice image and explanation in his Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight.

The heterosexual agenda

This is written using the same research methods as are used in similar studies of homosexuality. Read The HeteroSexual Agenda (and “What I learned by writing this parody”). [PDF file]

"The Eltonian Pyramid" by Ralph W. Dexter

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Ate a seal
Speared from a herd
Feeding on codfish and flounder
Schooling in cold Atlantic Ocean water
Where these fishes foraged on the bottom
Preying on numerous snails, crustaceans, & echinoderms
Which fed in turn upon abundant stocks of bivalves and annelid
The shellfish had filtered from gallons of water, detritus,, and plankton
Containing countless copepods, ciliates, bacteria, and algae including diatoms,
All of which build link by link, level by level, an ecologic principle-the Eltonian pyramid.