June 10, 2005
I just got this announcement from the California Invasive Plants Council (formerly the California Exotic Pest Plants Council).
The 2nd Annual Cal-IPC Photo Contest!
Got an Arundo infestation you just can’t describe? A thistle flower bigger than your head? Now’s your chance to show it off…
Photos will be accepted in the following categories (just a tip, let us know which category your photo belongs in):
Best weed impacts photos
Best weed workers photos
Best landscape infestation photos
Best specimen photos
Best weed humor photos (remember Peter Connors’ hungry iceplant?)
Last year, John Knapp of the Catalina Island Conservancy took home an awful lot of the prizes—anyone out there want to give him a run for his money this time around?
While we recognize that the admiration of your weed-battling colleagues is prize enough, we’ve got other goodies for those who take 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, too.
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2005
Winning photos will be chosen by the Cal-IPC Board in time to show them off at the Symposium in Chico, this October.
How to Enter:
Digital photos preferred, email them to Elizabeth at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
- Or -
Send a CD to:
Cal-IPC Photos
1442-A Walnut Street #462
Berkeley, CA 94709
Don’t forget to check out last year’s winners in the Cal-IPC News (volume 12 Fall/Winter 2004 issue).
Submit as many photos as you’d like; they don’t need to be new or unpublished.
Photo authors retain copyright, however Cal-IPC reserves the right to use submitted photos in publications, on the Cal-IPC website, and in other outreach materials.
Elizabeth Brusati, Ph.D, Project Manager
California Invasive Plant Council
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June 10, 2005
Over the past week or two, we’ve gone up to Tilden Park, out to Walnut Creek, over to El Cerrito, and a few other places either birding or on various errands. Everywhere, we’ve encountered shiny new painted ladies—I’m guessing they’re the offspring of the great migration we saw in March and early April. In some places, they’re even in comparable numbers. They were thick in the air up in Tilden (near Jewel Lake) around Grizzly Peak and the top of Spruce Street in Berkeley, and several every minute, counting just while we waited at traffic lights in Walnut Creek and Berkeley today.
The ones on the west side of the hills seemed to be flying every whichaways, but most of the ones crossing the roads in Walnut Creek seemed to be heading north. In Tilden, they were nectaring on thistles and poison hemlock.
One interesting thing about this species is also a decent fieldmark: They don’t fly around obstacles—including you— they fly over them.
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June 7, 2005
Nature tells us of a cultural tradition of tool use in cetaceans: Bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia have been seen using sponges as snout protectors.
They snatch the somewhat cone-shaped sponges off their bases and keep them over their noses while rooting out burrowing organisms from the local sea bottom. I’m thinking this is as much clothing as tools, for the presumed original use of clothing: protection. When they start decorating the sponges, we can call it fashion. And then they’ll need undersea closets. Somebody call SpongeBob’s architect.
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June 6, 2005
OK, I can’t quite resist the occasional lapse into political commentary.
In several blogs and other near occasions of word, I’ve seen comments about the recent stories of Koran desecration that mention the controversy over Andres Serrano’s infamous artwork “Piss Christ.” None has seemed to twig to the actual humor content of the piece.
No, it has little to do with desecrating anything. Serrano says that the thing is a crucifix in a vial of urine. However, he offers no evidence of that, so the outraged (and all other) viewers of the work , if they think it’s what he says it is, have to take it on faith.
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June 4, 2005
This combines art and science, since I skipped last week. Blame it on the holiday.
On the other hand, it’s kinda last-year. The college radio DJs have been playing it since at least last September. Hey, one of the blessings of old age is not having to keep up with the latest in pop culture.
Broken Hearted Dragonflies purports to be jungle recordings of the death throes of Southeast Asian dragonflies. The mp3 sample at the link sounds like yer basic jungle tweets and stridulations moving into a teeny jet takeoff. Charming, in its own way. I’ll probably even buy the CD someday, if I’m feeling flush. The subtitle’s a bit odd… I mean, is it insects or is it electronica?
BROKEN HEARTED DRAGONFLIES
Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia
Recorded by Alan Bishop forthe Sublime Frequencies label. Liner notes by Hakim Bey.
This catalog page has more samples.
I’ll have to admit it’s in the Buy This queue well behind the two (so far) boxed CD sets of Cab Calloway that Down Home Music has. Still, it would go nicely in the clockradioCDplayer in the bedroom. or on the answering machine. Yo, Valerie, maybe it would make good ringtones!
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