unfortunate names

 

a tiny fly called Pseudopachychaeta approximatonervis (Zetterstedt)

too long for my tiny identification label

would it have killed them to find a shorter name?

 

 

strange behaviors

 

Batrachomyia is an Australian genus of flies in the family Chloropidae.

The larvae develop under the skin on the backs of frogs.

Really big larvae. Really small frogs.

 

keystone species

 

what would happen to earth

if all the ants

just . . . stopped

 

 

3 lines to explain why

 

three lines per story

volumes of diversity

a world of insects