Critter Shots

[Smackie Chan]

Critter Shots

With no disrespect intended for your photographic skills, feel free to leave subject matter like this to our resident experts - Alec, pron, & DC Smackmaster. TIA

[Wolfman]

Fine example of the insect order Homoptera Sam. I remember as a kid in CNY hearing those guys making their humming sounds in the summertime.

[Smackie Chan]

Homoptera

Freudian slip of Hemiptera? (Homoptera is an invalid order.)

[Wolfman]

Amazing how science changes its mind, especially when it comes to taxonomy. Those guys were order Homoptera when I studied entomology at the University of Maine circa 1961.
Maybe someday they'll decide we are not Homo sapiens.
You have Traffic "You Can All Join In" for tonight. Sounds like Traffic does the Grateful Dead. See you.

[Smackie Chan]

You have Traffic "You Can All Join In" for tonight. Sounds like Traffic does the Grateful Dead.

I have a couple live Traffic tunes in the queue, but I'll have to track that one down. I'll try to have it by showtime.

[Mikey]

Fine example of the insect order Homoptera Sam. I remember as a kid in CNY hearing those guys making their humming sounds in the summertime.

They didn't make those sounds by themselves, you know.

[Wolfman]

"They didn't make those sounds by themselves, you know."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada

Au contraire---check out Cicada Song. Now you'll know that the sound they produce differs from the stridulation of say crickets.
The entomology lesson is free.

[Dinsdale]

Crickets and cicadas sing, a rare and different tune

[Mikey]

Crickets and cicadas sing, a rare and different tune

RACK

[Dinsdale]

But the train's put its brakes on
And The Whistle Is Screaming

[Mikey]

TERRAPIN