Once upon a time, I had a wing of glass /
Greta oto is a brush-footed butterfly, and is a member of the clearwing clade; its wings are transparent. Its most common English name is glasswing, and its Spanish name is espejitos, which means “little mirrors.” The same alkaloids that make them poisonous also are converted into pheromones by the males, which use them to attract females.
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Thank you, Soren Renner! Amazing and wonderful!
Posted by Astrid on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 03:43 AM | #
The “nothing” parts of the wings enable us to see “something” on the other side. The “nothing” frames perception of the “something”.
The cat’s response to the grape is “nothing doing”—but that response IS something. The “nothing” (bad for us) of butterfly poison used to harm enemies is also “something”—a sexy pheromone that helps make more butterflies.
When Cook Ting was asked how he could cut apart oxen so easily yet still keep his knife sharp for decades, he replied “Nothing much!”. “My knife is never dulled because I aim at the spaces between the bones, the places where there is ‘nothing’”. “Cutting through ‘nothing’ doesn’t dull my blade!”
Posted by Old Guy on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 06:18 PM | #
Old Guy: Head on over to the outback any time. I’ll throw a wallabee on the barbie for you. (A disobedient one, naturally). You are precisely correct. That’s what it means all right, I’d wager a wombat on it.
Posted by melba peachtoast on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 02:06 AM | #
Sorry, I meant to type “wallaby” but my withered fingers slipped on the dusty keyboard. The red dust of the Outback seeps through the airlock seal, finer and drier than cocoa powder....
Posted by melba peachtoast on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 02:10 AM | #
How utterly amazing. Thank you. (and, for the record, it almost seems redundant to say, I doubt I would EVER see a Negroid finger in a picture such as this. The Glories of God’s creation are too subtle for the savage races.
Posted by Fr. John on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 02:32 AM | #
“and, for the record, it almost seems redundant to say, I doubt I would EVER see a Negroid finger in a picture such as this...”—Fr. John
LOL. How true! It’s a sure bet that that very thought crossed the minds of 98% of the readers who viewed those wonderful pictures.
Posted by 357 on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 01:03 PM | #
Oh, you can now be assured that some Madison Avenue clown will do just that for an ad campaign for some Fortune 1000 company—probably with an obligatory blond concubine at his side. They’ll photoshop it if they have to.
Posted by James Bowery on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 03:48 PM | #
“and, for the record, it almost seems redundant to say, I doubt I would EVER see a Negroid finger in a picture such as this...”—Fr. John
HAHAHA you made me laugh so hard even though your a meanie! For the record darling that could be an Asian person’s finger or an Arabs blah blah. Actually i was wondering shouldn’t these pix be on a Nature website. What do they have to do with race issues?
Posted by Peter on Friday, May 16, 2008 at 01:43 AM | #
“Actually i was wondering shouldn’t these pix be on a Nature website. What do they have to do with race issues?”
My interpretation of this entry is its implicit message of the delicate relationship between flowers and butterflies. This relationship came about through evolution. Darwinism and race issues are inextricably linked together.
Posted by 357 on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 01:14 AM | #
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