Welcome to the 7th Circus of the Spineless!
We have all manner of posts for you, this month. With this handy dichotomous key, we can help you identify any post you might come across. Be sure to key out your specimen properly, or you might be surprised what "Inverteblogs" will appear.
1a. Post is not about Porifera ........................................ 2
1b. Post is about a sponge:
Circadiana (a.k.a. coturnix) with: sponges have circadian clocks?
2a. Blog is about an arthropod ...................................... 3
2b. Blog deals with a mollusk ........................................ 8
2c. Blog is about an echinoderm:
Medlar Comfits regales us with: Breakers Laundry
3a. Blog deals with Chelicerata ..................................... 4
3b. Blog caontains Lepidoptera ..................................... 5
3c. Blog deals with Diptera ........................................... 6
3c. Blog deals with Coleoptera .......................................7
3d. Blog deals with an insect that looks like another:
Bev provides the audience with: Insect Imposters
4a. Post is about a big spider in New Zealand:
White Tail Spider thanks to Pete
4b. Post is about a smaller spider in the northern hemisphere:
Bev with Spider Ranch
5a. Post is about moths and light pollution:
Rigor Vitae presents a Moth in the night sky
5b. Subject of post looks like a carpet:
Cindy brings us Scaled Wings
5c. Blog has picture of moth just sitting there:
Ben has a picture of A moth hanging upside down.
5d. Moth is in florida:
thingfish23 finds out that Sometimes they come back
6a. Blog discusses halteres:
Budak tells us A tale of two-pteras
6b. Post is about insects eating insects:
Ben has a picture of A light snack?
6c. Perhaps the most disturbing post in the circus:
Thoughts from Kansas forces us to confront Sometheing we don't want to have - ever.
7a. Post gets inspiration from the ancient Egyptians:
Medlar Comfits praises Dung Beetles.
8a. Mollusk has a really funky shell:
Aydin found a Frankensnail.
8b. Mollusk has been attacked, sometimes repeatedly:
Pascal found evidence of Snail predation.
8c. Last but not least:
tai haku has pictures of Colorful Squid
Apologies that this is a little late - I got lots of good posts. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
This is an amazing format! You've made me reluctant to host...I will be unable to top this. Mad props.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first dichotomous key that I have actually enjoyed using!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea!
ReplyDeleteOh, I love it so much! Very, very cool!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic idea, superbly executed. Thanks!
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Thank you for getting my late entry in. It took me a second to figure out the "cheek" in the format, as I only have a nodding familiarity with the for-real keying out of specimens!
ReplyDeleteThere would be one correction, and it is minor. I am thingfish23, not coturnix. I wouldn't mind being coturnix for a while, however.
Sorry thingfish23 - should be fixed now. Thanks for the input and compliments!
ReplyDeletewell done Pascal! Good stuff :)
ReplyDeleteGreat job with the collection. I really enjoyed flipping through them. Thanks for keeping me on the email notification list. I stopped my personal blog in Feb. and have been feeling a little "out of the loop."
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