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.
$ 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".
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.
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.
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.
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. 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).
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.
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…