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That time I found a poop beetle

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And now for a little “sh*t posting”…

I found this little beetle in a Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) trap several years ago in the vicinity of Ontario, California. I was able to identify it as a male (you can tell by the horns) Onthophagus taurus, a type of dung beetle native to areas around the Mediterranean (southern Europe, North Africa and the middle East). Apparently they were introduced in the U.S. in the late 1960’s to early 1970’s to help control cow dung, and have now spread to most of North America.

Image via Wikipedia.

Anyway, something a little different from the usual June bugs (Phyllophaga) and green fruit beetles (Cotinis) that I usually find in the traps.

 

Creationists are just buggy about bugs

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A few months back Frank Sherwin,  “Senior Science Lecturer” at the Institute for Creation Research, launched an amusing attack on evolution that is nigh on word-salad; this time focusing on insects, and how they are supposedly problematic for evolutionary theory.

As usual it is stated with the confidence and the faux authority that is typical of “creation science” practitioners but when you actually look at it and try to make sense of what is being said it quickly becomes apparent that much of it is really unintelligible nonsense.

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