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Green Bear is dedicated to promoting science education through stories about the amusing and amazing variety of life on Earth.
Mon Feb 25
The Stinging Rose CatepillarOrder: Lepidoptera, Family: Limacodidae Genus and species: Parasa indetermina (Boisduval)To see what this Arkansas resident metamorphosizes into visit the Anthropod Museum Photo Gallery http://entomology.uark.edu/museum/museum.html
The Stinging Rose Catepillar
Order: Lepidoptera, Family: Limacodidae
Genus and species: Parasa indetermina (Boisduval)
To see what this Arkansas resident metamorphosizes into visit the Anthropod Museum Photo Gallery
http://entomology.uark.edu/museum/museum.html
Wed Feb 20

Jabberwocky

Beware the Jabberwocky, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch.

~Lewis Carroll
Visit the Ecuadorian Moss Mantid at Bug Bios, http://www.insects.org/ Learn more about the Dragons of the Insect World at Encyclopedia Jr., http://www.encyclopediajr.com/
Visit the Ecuadorian Moss Mantid at
Bug Bios, http://www.insects.org/
Learn more about the Dragons of the Insect World at
Encyclopedia Jr., http://www.encyclopediajr.com/

Jaws

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!

~Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

The Black Devil Angler Fish, photo courtsey of Edith Widder on the NOAA Ocean Explorer webpage, lives in the aphotic (=lightless) zone of the Atlantic. Only the female has the luminous fleshy “bait” which she uses to lure her prey as she trolls the bottom of the ocean. Find out more about life in the abyss at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/life/bestiary.html
The Black Devil Angler Fish, photo courtsey of Edith Widder on the NOAA Ocean Explorer webpage, lives in the aphotic (=lightless) zone of the Atlantic. Only the female has the luminous fleshy “bait” which she uses to lure her prey as she trolls the bottom of the ocean. Find out more about life in the abyss at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/life/bestiary.html

The Platypus

I like the duck-billed platypus
Because it is anomalous.
I like the way it raises its family
Partly birdly, partly mammaly.
I like its independent attitude.
Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude.Ogden Nash
A unique creature the platypus, native to Australia, endowed with unusual characteristics.  They are the only venomous furred animals in the world and their bills are electro-sensitive.  For more pictures and information go to Australia’s DPIW at: http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/
A unique creature the platypus, native to Australia, endowed with unusual characteristics.  They are the only venomous furred animals in the world and their bills are electro-sensitive.  For more pictures and information go to Australia’s DPIW at: http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/
Fri Feb 1

from To A Louse, by Robert Burns

O wad some Power the giftie gie us

To see oursels as ithers see us!
The Snout Beetle.  One of the winners of the Ugly Bug Contest.  http://www.uglybug.org/body.shtml
The Snout Beetle.  One of the winners of the Ugly Bug Contest.  http://www.uglybug.org/body.shtml

genus Hippocampus

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

John F. Kennedy