h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Tiger swallowtails and monarch butterflies depend of the same range of milkweeds for fodder for their caterpillars.

Tiger swallowtail caterpillars are often not recognized as caterpillars.

They look like tiny, dry bodied, slate grey slugs.

You might see google advanced image search to picturez.

ALL BUGS ARE INSECTS
NOT ALL INSECTS ARE BUGS
If a site is going to use scientific names for species it should do the same for classes and orders
Bugs two Orders of Insect Hemiptera and Homoptera with sucking moth parts

Bugs: concealed devices that leak information.
Insects: Sects that are trending.

Changing the order again; I saw a dozen beautiful demoiselle at the weekend.

Insect sight of the years, a swarm of red dragon flies, so many I was unable to get a good count.

Since mosquito's are extinct locally, they must have found so ething else to eat.

Observation, the housefly count dropped precipitously during their visitation.

By separating the word "dragonflies", I lost context and imagined some other creature entirely. I put red and dragon together and tacked on fly.

After correcting for textmess, (See forum discussions on 'google 'keyboard'', as they call the 'word' program on Android.):




"Insect sight of the year, a swarm of red dragonflies, so many I was unable to get a good count.

Since mosquitos are extinct locally, they must have found something else to eat.

Observation: the housefly count dropped precipitously during their visitation."




I hate having to play 'chase the dustbunny' with the touchscreen cursor control that's the only device available for making corrections with this system, especially since the majority of errors are machine errors.

I'm personally convinced the dysfunctionalisms affecting the system are a consequence of attitude rather than incompetence on the part of the software design team and that ultimately the only answer is sacking them and throwing away substantial parts of their program.

AVG is making some progress toward cleaning up the software problems.

Well there are plenty of Mozzies about. Fifteen bites and counting..and as there are some on my back I can't reach it's probably higher..

Between the discovery of West Nile Virus in neighborhoods across the greater Houston/Galveston area and the threatening Chikungunya outbreak, I'll be using a lot of DEET this year, it seems.






Every time I hear about chikungunya, my mouth waters.

I could really go for a big bowl of chikungunya right now.

Aedes mosquitoes were unknown in Massachusetts until 2000. Now we have them, in addition to the anopheles and others. Hopefully they are not yet exposed to the chikungunya virus, which requires a pool of tropical/subtropical animals that Massachusetts does not have. Rodents are the only other hosts that we would have.

Not that we really want or need chikungunya here. We have Lyme Disease [spread by ticks and sharing hosts with deer and mice] and Eastern Equine Encephalitis [which, as the name suggest, relies on nearby infected horses].