Tuesday 22 April 2008

National Moth Night (UK)

Time to get out of the armchairs and look for Moths!

Saturday 7th June is National Moth Night in the UK and is a chance to help out by observing and counting moths.
The website has some tips on how to attrach Moths and also events in your area.

www.nationalmothnight.info

Tuesday 1 April 2008

Insect Digitally Extracted from amber

Not only have palaeontologists extracted images of insects from cloudy amber but they have used the digital information to construct a scale model

More here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7324564.stm