Mount Tom Spring wallpaper
Loggerhead turtle nests lag
Florida’s beaches lost a substantial amount of loggerhead sea turtle nests in 2007, giving the state its lowest nest count in 17 years, wildlife officials reported.
Researchers found 45,084 nests for the threatened turtles, down more than 4,600 nests from 2006, according to newly released statistics from the Florida Fish [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Mount Tom Spring wallpaper, Loggerhead numbers continue decline
Posted in Environment-General, Environment-wildlife, News on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Illustrated Ladybug wallpaper, Species bigotry
Posted in Environment-wildlife, Society & Culture on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Illustrated Ladybug 1680×1200
Illustrated Ladybug wallpaper 1440×900
This article has a humorous tone, but at the same time makes some insightful observations about biobigotry, Noble Eagles, Nasty Pigeons, Biased Humans
Biobigotry is different from the impulse to avoid organisms that can hurt or sicken us, like yellow jackets, mosquitoes or poison ivy, or to fend off traditional [...]
Leaping Dolphins wallpaper, New tech could recycle greenhouse gases, Pot smokers deserve to die
Posted in Environment-General, Health, Science, Society & Culture, tagged culture, environment, Health on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Leaping Dolphins wallpaper
If we’re constantly exploring ways to recycle our waste like plastics and paper why not recycle our gas house emissions too, Technological breakthrough in the fight to cut greenhouse gases
Scientists at Newcastle University have pioneered breakthrough technology in the fight to cut greenhouse gases.
The Newcastle University team, led by Michael North, Professor of [...]
Copper River wallpaper, Laptop network to detect earthquakes sooner, The sorry state of the media
Posted in Science, Society & Culture, Tech on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aerial View Copper River Delta wallpaper. The CRD is located in the biggest state in the U.S. Alaska.
I’ve heard of SETI, a distributed network of computers that the average person can participate in to help search for extraterrestrial life. The there is Folding, another distributed computing project to discover more about protein folding ( you [...]
Swallowtail wallpapers, Scientists shed new light on Gondwana ’supercontinent’ mystery
Posted in Environment-wildlife, News, Science on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Caterpillar of Black Swallowtail wallpaper
Checkered Swallowtail wallpaper
I didn’t have a photo of a mature Black Swallowtail.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Papilionidae* subfamilies – Baroniinae, Parnassiinae and Papilioninae
The basics of attracting butterflies to your yard, but even if you live in an apartment with a patio you [...]
