Christmas beetle
/Happy holidays from this Christmas beetle, who lives in Australia.
Dead bee?
/...aka sawfly (Cimbicidae), a bee relative.
Dead skate
/Pine Point, Maine
A dead skate washed up on the beach. It's covered with flies and curling up as it dries out.
In related news, I just learned something really weird about dead skates...
Moths go with the flow
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Silver Y moths are named for a silvery squiggle that adorns each forewing, like a handwritten y. Twice a year these moths (and a lot of songbirds) migrate over Europe while researchers track them with radar. But how do they deal with the wind?
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