Alex Wild writes in his Compound Eye blog: Why are media insects misidentified? That’s not a bee…. How does a fly end up advertising a book whose target audience, not to mention the mortified authors, will instantly recognize as a mistake? Publishers, photo editors, and stock agencies—those entities that purchase from image creators—trust photographers to correctly […]
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Dutch bug-splatter-on-cars count
This graph shows seven days of bug-splat data. The bugs splatted onto the license plates of automobiles traveling in The Netherlands. The graph is color-coded to show approximate time-of-day when the splatting happened. It’s part of the Wageningen-University-based SplashTeller project. BONUS: Mark Hostetler was awarded the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize in entomology for his scholarly book, […]
Bug-Splatter Research: from Ig to genomics
A long 12 years after Mark E. Hostetler of the University of Florida won the Ig Nobel Prize in entomology for his analysis of insects smushed by car windshields, a nationwide team of researchers has brought the field buzzing back with the help of advanced genomics. The group, led by Anton Nekrutenko of Pennsylvania State […]