The problem with iStockphoto, captured in a single photo
Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
-
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
Myrmecos- derived from the ancient greek word for "ant"- hosts Alex's musings about these and other little creatures that share our planet.
Questions? Email alwild [at] myrmecos.net; or follow @Myrmecos on Twitter.
-
Recent Images
-
-
Bits and Pieces
awesome
Try to look at the bright side Alex. The caption could have read “the drosophila gather honey on an orchid.”
OMG! Huge FAIL!! My wife took her pictures off of iPhoto when she started to make money as a photographer. Wasn’t worth the 20 cents a download to have her reputation tainted by such unprofessionalism, such as this (my opinion, not hers).
Holy failure Batman!! Look it’s a bat on that pine tree flower!
Wow, they even got the phylum wrong! How the hell does one mistake a hummingbird’s wings for a fruit fly’s?
I didn’t even know flowers had internal fertilisation and such extreme degrees of sexual dimorphism.
Sadly, teh FAIL is all over the interwebs
epic fail!
Hahaha, hilarious!
Wednesday just got better.
Just thought of this…
Geneticists mutate the Drosophila all the time. Maybe it’s an experimental escapee that now looks identical to honey bee and has behavioral conditioning to collect honey bee… aha…
[...] there is this epic taxonomy fail Alex Wild at myrmecos blog spotted on iStock Photo – either that or someone mutated a Drosophila a bit too [...]
[...] 12, 2010 by myrmecos We’ve pointed and laughed at iStockphoto enough already. Let’s pick on Getty [...]