"the black wasp...Mason of his walls of clay,/And the architectural plans/Of grey hornet artisans"

[larryhammer]

Drumming on the ice of Lake Baikal -- as in a percussion troupe making sounds with the ice. More. (via)

Interactive infographic of all of the Doctor's travels through time in the recent history/future of Earth, coded by regeneration. (via)

Last year, monarch butterflies arrived in Mexico for their winter-over in record low numbers, only 60 million. This year, they arrived a week late, and only 3 million of them. Scary stuff. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "The Barefoot Boy," John Greenleaf Whittier.

Comments

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Oh, the poor Monarchs. That is a truly frightening crash in numbers.

I thought things were bad in this country with extensive loss of insect habitat, but it sounds much worse over there...

[larryhammer]

And so suddenly, too.

---L.