New Pantheist Website

The owner/designer of a new website for pantheist families emailed me asking if I would share the link:

http://pantheistkids.weebly.com/

It's clearly a work in progress but is a good start. Mixture of kid-friendly science-positive stuff and kid-friendly eco/enviro stuff. Check it out.

100 Species #74: Long-necked seed bug.

This long-necked seed bug Myodocha serripes was the first visitor to the light identified with a specific common name. Also the cutest.

There's a dearth of information online about this species, which is sad and surprising. It is distinctive, with only one other species in North America that resembles it, and that one found only in Florida. M. serripes is found across the eastern 2/3 of the continent, owing probably to it's flexibility with diet and habitat. It belongs to the family of true bugs uncharitably called the "dirt-colored seed bugs."

3:00 snapshot #776

An errand brought us back to where Brookline meets Mission Hill. Notice the MATEP tower, seen from the opposite side than I usually photograph it. As long as we're in the neighborhood...

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3:00 snapshot #777

Mist net? Check.
Fly parasites? Check.
Sunglasses? Radio? Cheezncrackers snacks?
Check, check, and check. Let's roll.

Earlier, not far away...

A crow pecks at a large...cheese? Cheesecake?...in the median strip on Blue Hill Ave.