#insect mimicry

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Ponerine Ant (Ectatomma spp) and mimicking plant bug nymph

Photo by Christian Ziegler

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this tiny bit of bark is slowly crawling up tree... suspicious...

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Powder puff tree (Calliandra haematocephala) with thorn bugs (Umbonia crassicornis)

I was taken aback - a powder puff tree with thorns??  It was only upon further inspection, that I noticed the thorns MOVED!    

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Is counting things always more "objective"?

Is counting things always more “objective”?

Social science researchers employ so-called qualitative methods, such as case studies, interviews, documentary evidence, participant observation, and the quasi-quantitative method of survey research. Physical science researchers employ quantitative methods; they take measurements, collect and count data points, and formulate equations that model how systems change. The difference in methods is…

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The Artist as Scientist: Nabokov and Insect Mimicry, talk by VN Alexander

The Artist as Scientist: Nabokov and Insect Mimicry, talk by VN Alexander

It’s a commonplace to say that good science requires imagination, yet scientist aren’t really encouraged to read poetry or to take up painting. Maybe they should. This talk presents the example of Vladimir Nabokov, renown Russian-American novelist and butterfly scientist who used his artistic knowledge to understand how evolution…

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2016 Top 20: Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art

2016 Top 20: Fine Lines: Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art

The Book/Arts blog of the prestigious journal Nature has included Fine Lines in its top 20 book list for 2016.

  Fine Lines was also review in Doppiozero in Italy, Haibun in Romania, and science and art blog, and made the top 20 list bioteaching.com

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My Mimicry Research Translated into French: Papillons et feuilles mortes

My Mimicry Research Translated into French: Papillons et feuilles mortes

“Butterflies and dead leaves: A Biosemiotic Approach to Nabokov’s Theory of Mimicry,” based on VN Alexander’s lecture at “Living Matter / Literary Forms”, organized at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in April 2013  by Liliane Campos, Yasna Bozhkova and Pierre-Louis Patoine. Text translated by Pierre–Louis Patoine.

Vladimir Nabokov n’a pas publié que des romans. On compte aussi à son actif plusieurs…

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Fine Lines in Vogue

Fine Lines in Vogue

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