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Category Archives: Writing
Project LBB: Drawing workflow
The somewhat disheveled and quite deceased beetle on the left is the original collected type specimen of Hyperaspis troglodytes, well over 100 years old. I obtained the image from the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) entomology type database; the … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Insects, Lady beetles, Project LBB, Scymninae, Writing
Tagged artwork, book, drawing, hyperaspis, hyperaspis troglodytes, insect, lady beetle, ladybird, ladybug, MCZ, Prismacolor, process, project lbb, writing
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Project LBB: The drawing begins!
The lovely lady to the left is Cycloneda sanguinea, the Spotless Lady Beetle, the first drawing I tackled for Project LBB. (Actually the lovely lady is a male – notice the white vertical line at the center of the black-and-white … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Chilocorinae, Coccidulinae, Coccinellinae, Lady beetles, Project LBB, Writing
Tagged art, azya orbigera, book, chilocorus stigma, cycloneda sanguinea, drawing, globe-marked, lady beetle, ladybird, ladybug, Prismacolor, project lbb, spotless, twice-stabbed, writing
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Project LBB: Preparations
I spent the first evening of Project LBB going through the invaluable lady beetle reference work by Robert Gordon, “The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico.” Published in 1985, it is out of date in some respects, but it … Continue reading
Posted in Bug Links, Insects, Lady beetles, Project LBB, Writing
Tagged book, BugGuide, Gordon, lady beetle, ladybird, ladybug, project lbb, writing
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Project LBB: What is it?
I’ve long coveted a field guide to Eastern North American lady beetles – something akin to John Acorn’s “Ladybugs of Alberta,” the only lady beetle field guide I know of. His book is fantastic, one of my favorites, but it … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Lady beetles, Project LBB, Writing
Tagged artwork, book, drawing, field guide, lady beetle, project lbb, writing
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Project Lady Beetle Book: It begins!
It starts tonight: Project Lady Beetle Book (hereafter most likely abbreviated “Project LBB”). I’ve been tossing the idea around for a while now, but finally took concrete steps toward it tonight. 4/4/2011. And…GO!
More mutterings
Okay, so the last set didn’t exactly kick-start me like I wanted. It’s tough to blog about nature in winter; snow, snow, snow, snow…the occasional pigeon…more snow. (Oh, I mean nature in the winter in the city. In the countryside … Continue reading
I’m corralling the haiku!
So as not to turn this into a haiku-each-day blog, I’ve started a new little blog on WordPress.com called, you guessed it, A Haiku Each Day. I’ll post, you also guessed it, one haiku there every day; the mental discipline … Continue reading
More haiku, because they’re addictive
Indian Corn Pearlescent kernels, Nestled against their neighbors, Gems in a coffer. Cat Ears stiff as sailcloth Whiskers poised like galley oars The hunter embarks. Lady Beetle Smooth-shelled hemisphere Candy-colored polka dots Beneath: the dark jaws.
Posted in Cats, Lady beetles, Mammals, Plants, Poetry, Writing
Tagged cat, haiku, indian corn, lady beetle, nature, plants, poetry, writing
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The poetry of nature
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth…
(Can you tell what kind of spider it is yet?) Continue reading
Posted in Arachnids, Butterflies and Moths, Chit-chat, Insects, Poetry, Spiders, Writing
Tagged crab spider, literature, moth, poem, poetry, Robert Frost, spider, writing
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