Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Buggers!


What's That Bug? is a cool website that helps people identify the little creatures they find around them. Lisa Ann and Daniel, the website purveyors, have helped identify hundreds of beetles, mites, spiders, centipedes, butterflies and other multilegged friends from all over the world.

The fascinating photos are fun to browse. The subjects range from the mundane housefly to the sublime Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly, to the fascinating Giant Ichneumon, and the scary Mexican Cancle Tailless Whipscorpion and the Toe Biter. There's even one that looks like Cousin Itt of the Addams Family. The authors include a little bit of information about most of the species they identify and a few tips on how you can get rid of things like pantry beetle infestations.

They don't just have pictures of live ones, they have pictures of squished ones too.

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