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points of departure skip to content points of departure the blanket octopus meet the indo pacific violet blanket octopus females grow up to 6 ft 2 m long and are more than 10 000x larger than males they also sport massive blankets or webs of skin connecting their dorsal arms that they can detach to distract predators pic twitter com 3vmre8snwj american museum of natural history amnh may 9 2024 dinesh miscellaneous leave a comment may 10 2024 1 minute where do butterflies come from https www smithsonianmag com science nature where did butterflies come from scientist on case 180983698 i was so surprised that scientists didn t know everything about this and it became my childhood dream to figure out where butterflies came from how they evolved and how they re related to each other says kawahara now a 45 year old entomologist at the university of florida dinesh miscellaneous leave a comment may 8 2024 1 minute light cones for removing specular reflections dinesh miscellaneous leave a comment may 8 2024 1 minute no math needed dinesh miscellaneous leave a comment may 8 2024 1 minute on phoroncidia a few years ago i got an email from mark stowe of bolas spider fame asking about a spider we had collected in the work we had done on the spiders that live in the epiphytes of the tree canopies in shade coffee plantations he was very interested in kaira sp and asked if we had a specimen i looked into our data base and then to the collection but we had found only one specimen and that one was currently in the arachnid collection of fernando alvarez padilla in the unam after that exchange i looked up a bit about kaira and it had a very weird shape and in this way i sort of memorised the general shape of the body a technique that birders use to identify birds in flight and so when i did see one after a couple of years it was the merest glimpse of it a small stubby jutting out against a macadamia leaf on the tree that grew alongside my balcony that triggered my memory i looked closely and lo it was a kaira i watched it for a while it rarely moved i took some photos and notified mark but for one reason or the other it never went beyond that after that encounter i got into the habit of scanning the tree every time i was out on the balcony a couple more kairas turned up but disappeared after a while then one day a slightly differently shaped spider made its presence felt to my eyes i can t say i saw it it just appeared in my vision i was hard pressed to identify it by itself not so surprising since i am still getting to know the spider fauna of mexico it was just out of reach for a decent photograph i quickly ran though my mental spider database and thought it could be an orb web spider of some sort that builds a web at night but when i checked it out at night it was hanging off a single web strand then it clicked it must be phoroncidia a theridiid spider that uses just a single web strand to hunt prey i read up about it and though most people think that insects hit the web by accident eberhard suggests that the web contains glue which may have insect attracting compounds i waited for a long time hoping to catch a predation event in action but i had no luck i did find some flies stuck on the web though i took a series of photos and even caught it making an eggsac but not once did i see an insect actually land on the web dinesh miscellaneous leave a comment september 18 2022 2 minutes posts navigation older posts blog at wordpress com points of departure blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed points of departure join 70 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy points of departure subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website