'If you can read this....'

Fun fact: my father did, in fact, own a Ford Falcon when I was younger. ('65 Futura sedan.) She was pretty speedy, but she couldn’t actually fly. If she could have, I would’ve insisted that she be named Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled hijinks. :grin:

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Check out entomemology.Com, they have related stickers. My favorite is “ i didn’t choose the bug life. The bug life chose me.” Feauring a “sick"ada.

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$ gwhois entomemology.com
Process query: 'entomemology.com'
1. Step: Querying whois.verisign-grs.com:43 with whois.
-- From: whois.verisign-grs.com:43

No match for "ENTOMEMOLOGY.COM".

Welcome, @buggyv! I think the link picked up a typo.

Try this one instead:
Entomemeology

And yes; there are some fun stickers there. Kinda short on dragonflies, though.

(Hey, Discourse: we need odonota emojis stat!)

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“I will stop every five minutes to see bugs”

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I once had a great bumper sticker (purchased at an ESA meeting) that said I FEAR NO WEEVIL, with a cute little cartoon weevil to drive home the point. It was on my ‘95 Eagle Talon, but would have much better suited my next car - a ‘99 New Beetle.

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My profile image is actually a window sticker that was sold at a Park Service visitor center in the SW U.S. I failed to buy one at the time for my car – just took a photo of it – and later found it was no longer available.

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I’m strongly tempted to get a bumper sticker that reads “Society For The Conservation Of Lanternflies”. :open_mouth:

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Oooh, you do like to live dangerously, don’t you? :laughing:

One of the jewelers that I used to know sold a sticker in his shop: “Reunite Gondwanaland!”

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How about this one:

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I hope your definition of lanternflies is not limited to spotted ones. Lanternflies are one of the insects I primarily identify and there are over 700 species of these beauties worldwide. I have myself been lucky enough to be the first person to id 63 species of Fulgoridae on iNat. Some of them are incredibly beautiful, such as the genera Pyrops, Saiva, Scamandra, Polydictya, Lystra, Metaphaena, Holodictya, and Bloeteanella to name a few.

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Lanternflies, as a group, ARE gorgeous. Sadly, there aren’t many members of the Fulgoridae here in New Jersey besides Spotted (I think there’s one other that’s been reported… but not by me!). I only rarely confess to being fond of them because it usually brings down someone’s humorless rant about them being the spawn of Satan or somesuch. :slightly_smiling_face: Haters gonna hate.

Incidentally… I also collect insect fossils and have a true fulgorid… quite small… in Dominican amber. I haven’t photographed it yet but will post on the forum when I do (if interested).

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(Picture of a goose). “Honk Honk HOOONNNKKKK!!!”

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Yes, please!

Or maybe “Dragons and Damsels are so fly.” (Do young people still say fly?)

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Actually i live back here in India where we’ve got quite some hoppers. yet I’ve not been lucky enough to photograph a lanternfly.

Wow… I think you can post these on iNat just by saying no on “Recent evidence of an organism” as it’s been fossilised. I do not know how acceptable the is on iNat but is fairly ok in my opinion. You can tag me too.

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Hmmm…I HAVE seen a singular ob of a dinosaur (I think either track or bone); I’m kind of wondering if I can post photos of some of the small fossils I’ve found…

I’ve posted a few insect fossils in the past, but I try not to do too many. Here are a couple of examples from my collection:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238433712
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/39588616
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238431516

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Well it’s not exactly a bumper sticker… …but I do have orchids on my doors (the ute itself is also set up for long distance flora hunting/surveying).

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Fossils generally shouldn’t be posted on iNat. See previous staff responses:

I think we should make one based on the Car-is-a-beetle/Beetle-is-a-car theme.

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