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Katsaridaphobia! (Fear of Cockroaches)

Posted on May 31, 2008 in Santa Monica Mts BioBlitz 2008 | 1 Comments

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roach.jpgHollywood bug wrangler Steve Kutcher gives Katie, an eighth grader from Bonita Vista Middle School in San Diego, a fright with his trained hissing cockroaches.

Photograph by Les Gainous

POSTED BY EMILY LANDIS/BIOBLITZ TEAM AT 3:18 PM

One Schoolchild's Sketch

Posted on May 31, 2008 in Santa Monica Mts BioBlitz 2008 | 0 Comments

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Photograph by Mary Crooks/NGS

POSTED BY FORD COCHRAN/BIOBLITZ TEAM AT 4:44 AM PDT

Backyard BioBlitzer's Road Show

Posted on May 31, 2008 in Santa Monica Mts BioBlitz 2008 | 0 Comments

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hevels.jpgSmithsonian Institution entomologist Gary Hevel made a splash at last year's Rock Creek Park BioBlitz when he arrived with many of the more than 4,000 insect species he had collected in his own Silver Spring, Maryland backyard.

Rock Creek Park is adjacent to Silver Spring. How much more impressive, then, when Gary showed up in Santa Monica, more than 2,000 miles from home, with all those insects! Do you ship thousands of insects across the country or try to check them at the airport? Neither, says Gary. "I drove here!"

Photograph by Ford Cochran/NGS

POSTED BY FORD COCHRAN/BIOBLITZ TEAM AT 9:14 PM PDT

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