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Alex Wild on insects, science, and photography
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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.
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Ha ha, the new paleoentomology!! or is it paleoarthropodology?
Ha… what? It’s not just the title… half of the bugs identified are hilariously wrong. Imagine one of those “comman [sic] cockroaches” scuttling around your kitchen!
Cool ants and “cicalas”!
Aw hell, I’m trying to make light of it, but mostly I’m insulted!
Awesome find Jack and Michael! I new you guys would discover some new taxa in Nicaragua!
Spell check: knew.
AA, the pain!
Can anyone read the (I assume) Arabic? It’s hard to tell if how much of this is taxonomy fail and how much of it is plain Engrish…
Ha ha! This is the best picture ever! Looks like there are FAR fewer things correctly identified than incorrectly IDed. Hilarious! And sad. So sad.
It doesn’t appear to be Arabic, in which I know the words for several of these organisms, or of the misnomers.
Persian/Farsi?
Wait. Is there anything you don’t know, James?
I am rather conviced that there is very little about which Dr. Trager knows nothing…in other words, he knows entirely too much about just about everything.
Oh Man! I was all set for everyone’s favorite fossil! This is too much.
James is right – it’s Farsi. Best taxonomy fail ever!
See, I told you Dr. Trager knows too much about nearly everything!
I think it was made in Iran …
A lot of things in China also tend to be this way with animals–I distinctly remember seeing books and things when I went back in 4th grade. There was one picture I remember that labeled a mantidfly as a mantis–not the most egregious error I saw, but still representative of the quantity over quality sort of work that I would say continues to occur in China today.
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It is indeed Farsi or Persian.
I can tell you for sure that it has NOT been written by an Entomologist and rather a bad artist/salesman looking to make a few bucks. I can see this is a “sticker book” and on the bottom right corner, it says it as well with the name of the company.
So I’m sure if you get this to a Persian Entomologist, he/she could correctly identify them and personally call that company to give them hell!
My first clue that it wasn’t Arabic was that the ant word is clearly Indo-European, beginning with the the syllable “mur-” — cf. myrmecos, pismire, etc.
The words for scorpion and spider are straight borrowings from Arabic, however.
But that’s all I know. ;~}
/mur-/ is a proto-IE thing? That’s kinda cool, ant = /muravei/ in Russian!
Pelican spider or red ant, whatever. Has anyone calculated the cumulative taxon fail here? It would take awhile, but may be a record for one illustration.
This is so full of fail, it’s been rendered awesome. Want.
It’s almost as bad as D. Makhan’s work.
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