For more info, you can check out her
website. The video of her "bee dance" goes on for quite a while, but at around minute seven she stops dancing and (still wearing her shirt of bees) joins a tea party already in progress.
I want to see Hasbro or Mattel market this game today.
Original article here.
In July 1957, Hastings Minnesota was invaded by fish flies. Millions of them. So many that they piled up on roads in enormous drifts and prevented cars from getting through.
From the
History of Hastings blog:
The cops were called. The Fire Department was called. State highway sanders were useless against the combined efforts of the millions of fish flies who piled up their little bodies against all human efforts. Meanwhile the deck of the bridge became as slippery and slimy as grease, stalling cars that had to be moved to release the motorists stalled and steaming in cars with all windows closed against the bugs.
For over an hour a group of strong-backed youths, who volunteered their help, pushed and tugged cars through the 2 1/2 ft. bug-drift in the center of the bridge. Some were members of the very commendable teenager Cavalier Auto Club, supported by the Greater Hastings Association. The young men did a terrific job, some wearing bathing trunks, as they waded through the piles of bugs to help motorists. They pushed, advised, sweated with flies in ears, mouths, eyes. Look at those spots in front of the camera lens. They’re bugs…. stacked up on the car hood, piled up in drifts. How prolific-the hatch was terrific.
Scientists in Australia are studying
bees to find ways to protect them from diseases that destroy bee populations. To do this they refrigerate the bees till they are sleepy and docile then they glue a microchip to each bee. Some of the younger bees are hairy enough that they must be shaved before attaching the 1/16 of an inch square chip. Bee shaver is just about the weirdest job I've ever heard of, to say nothing of the micro chip gluer on-ers.
picture from yahoo images
FOLKICIDE: Empire of the Ants from Mikal Shapiro on Vimeo.
As someone who does his own collages, I appreciate the inventiveness of these weird ones.
Oh the
horror! But at least they are over there, right? Not necessarily, they were seen in Illinois last year.
I feel cheated. I thought there were real millipedes -- with one thousand legs. After reading the article here:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/121114-leggiest-animal-millipede-illacme-plenipes-silicon-valley-science/
I discovered there is no creature with one-thousand legs.
But this one comes close:
Thought extinct, they have been rediscovered in Silicon Valley and may be lost again due to habitat loss.
Not to be sexist, but one interesting fact from the story may explain women's fascination with shoes. The female has 750 legs; the male only 550.
It can also spin its own clothes.
Instead of painting with oils or watercolors, Fabian Peña uses fragments of cockroach wings and crushed houseflies as his artistic medium. The blurb about him at the
David Castillo Gallery says: "Peña harkens to the Shakespearean interpretation of a corporeal 'pound of flesh,' acknowledging the somatic price for locating beauty in the grotesque." [via
ihlet.com]