new posts in all blogs
Viewing: Blog Posts Tagged with: insects, Most Recent at Top [Help]
Results 1 - 25 of 64
How to use this Page
You are viewing the most recent posts tagged with the words: insects in the JacketFlap blog reader. What is a tag? Think of a tag as a keyword or category label. Tags can both help you find posts on JacketFlap.com as well as provide an easy way for you to "remember" and classify posts for later recall. Try adding a tag yourself by clicking "Add a tag" below a post's header. Scroll down through the list of Recent Posts in the left column and click on a post title that sounds interesting. You can view all posts from a specific blog by clicking the Blog name in the right column, or you can click a 'More Posts from this Blog' link in any individual post.
By: DanP,
on 8/18/2016
Blog:
OUPblog
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
Anopheles,
designer nature,
science vs mosquitoes,
The Infested Mind,
Books,
health,
nature,
science,
olympics,
Medical Mondays,
insects,
virus,
mosquitoes,
mosquito,
six-legged soldiers,
malaria,
rio olympics,
Editor's Picks,
*Featured,
Science & Medicine,
Health & Medicine,
life sciences,
Earth & Life Sciences,
Jeffrey A. Lockwood,
zika virus,
zika,
mosquito bites,
Aedes aegypti,
Add a tag
We’re told that we can insert a gene to confer sterility and this trait would race like wildfire through Aedes aegypti. Why this species? Because it’s the vector of the Zika virus—along with the dengue and yellow fever viruses. The problem is that A. aegypti isn’t the only culprit. It’s just one of a dozen or more bloodsuckers that will also have to be wiped out. After we’ve driven these species to extinction, we’ll presumably move on to the Anopheles species that transmit malaria.
The post Designer nature: mosquitoes first and then what? appeared first on OUPblog.
You know how much I love house plants and greenery of all kinds. I don't have a green thumb, and my plants don't always do well, but I am stubborn and don't give up easily. My office is full of plants. sometimes they get those really annoying fungus gnats, so I am continually in a battle of control.
There was an outbreak the same week that my Poetry Sister Sara shared her photos of the art
By: Jerry Beck,
on 6/12/2016
Blog:
Cartoon Brew
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
Insects,
Jan Svankmajer,
Crowdfunding,
Conspirators of Pleasure,
Dimensions of Dialogue,
Henry Selick,
Ideas/Commentary,
Feature Film,
Jabberwocky,
Add a tag
The director of "Coraline" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas" explains why you should know the name Jan Svankmajer and how to help him make his last feature film.
The post Henry Selick On Why Jan Svankmajer Matters appeared first on Cartoon Brew.
By: Hannah Paget,
on 2/29/2016
Blog:
OUPblog
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
animals,
biology,
insects,
nests,
cuckoo,
animal behaviour,
*Featured,
Science & Medicine,
life sciences,
Chris Packham,
Earth & Life Sciences,
earth and life sciences,
animal deception,
ant nests,
brood parasites,
Cheats and Deceits,
cuckoo bee,
martin stevens,
sneaky animals,
World's Sneakiest Animals,
Books,
Add a tag
Many of us know that some birds trick other host parents from a different species into rearing their young. Best known is the common cuckoo in the UK and much of mainland Europe, However, this type of deception is not only the forte of birds – many insects ‘brood parasites’ too, especially ants, wasps, and bees.
The post Enslaved ants and cuckoo bees appeared first on OUPblog.
By: Katherine Soroya,
on 10/2/2015
Blog:
OUPblog
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
insects,
disease,
rabies,
international travel,
emergency,
hepatitis,
*Featured,
expedition,
Science & Medicine,
Health & Medicine,
typhoid,
Quizzes & Polls,
dengue fever,
travel medicine,
Japanese encephalitis,
Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine,
Add a tag
Is garlic or citronella more useful in repelling insects? Which disease is typically identified as an 'urban' disease? What is the most reliable way to purify water? To celebrate the publication of the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine test your knowledge of the unique dangers and diseases faced in travel medicine.
The post How much do you know about travel medicine? appeared first on OUPblog.
Before
by Avis Harley
The butterfly was there
before any human art was made.
Before cathedrals rose in prayer,
the butterfly was there.
It's been such an amazing experience to have monarch caterpillars, chrysalises and butterflies in our classroom for the past two weeks! They were given to us by one of our building's paraprofessionals, whose mother collected the caterpillars and hung the chrysalises in nifty solo cup viewers. The last of the caterpillars started to make its J today and I overheard one of my students say, "I could just sit here and watch all day!" Another student caught the caterpillar's last voracious eating on video on one of the iPads yesterday. We haven't stopped marveling at the beauty of the chrysalises. Why the gold dots? There seems to be no scientific explanation. Nature just goes out of its way to be beautiful!
If I'm understanding what I have read
here, our butterflies might be fourth generation monarchs, the ones who will migrate to Mexico to hibernate for the winter before flying back to start the cycle all over again. This is as much of a miracle as the metamorphosis and the gold dots. What an amazing world this is!
By: Connie Ngo,
on 7/10/2015
Blog:
OUPblog
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
ingredients,
*Featured,
Darra Goldstein,
Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets,
OxCompSweets,
Ambergris,
Castoreum,
interesting facts,
Pekmez,
Tragacanth,
Books,
baking,
insects,
candy,
Food & Drink,
dessert,
Add a tag
Though many of us are familiar with the use of fresh fruits in desserts, flavorings in candy, and other ubiquitous ingredients, a great deal are unusual. They're unusual in the sense that they're "not commonly occurring," or that we believe them to be so. With that, here are five ingredients you might find, but not expect, in your next dessert.
The post Five unusual ingredients in sweets appeared first on OUPblog.
By: Suzie Eves,
on 6/8/2015
Blog:
OUPblog
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
orchids,
pollen,
wasps,
*Featured,
oxford journals,
sexual reproduction,
life sciences,
Earth & Life Sciences,
annals of botany,
Alun Salt,
aob,
fascination of plants,
sexual deception,
flowers,
Videos,
Journals,
nature,
science,
biology,
Multimedia,
botany,
insects,
Add a tag
“In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love” (Alfred, Lord Tennyson), but he could have said the same for insects too. Male insects will be following the scent of females, looking for a partner, but not every female is what she seems to be. It might look like the orchid is getting some unwanted attention in the video below, but it’s actually the bee that’s the victim. The orchid has released complex scents to fool the bee into thinking it’s meeting a female.
The post Sexual deception in orchids appeared first on OUPblog.
By: Cathy Morrison,
on 5/12/2015
Blog:
Studio With A View
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
flowers,
nature,
animals,
children's picture books,
insects,
Mother's Day,
honey bees,
Denver Post,
William Porter,
Add a tag
After turning in artwork for If You Love Honey, Nature's Connections I got a look at Patty Arnold's design and layout for the book. I'm posting a few spreads here to give you a sneak peek. This is my second book illustrated by Martha Sullivan and third book for Dawn Publishing. It comes out this fall. After doing a lot of research for the illustrations I'm now a true honey bee fanatic, not to mention a Martha Sullivan fan!
And I wanted to say "Thanks!" to William Porter at the Denver Post for including me in his
Mother's Day article. It's always great to give a shout out to our moms, especially our moms who spent a lot of time reading to us.
By: Angela Muse,
on 4/22/2015
Blog:
4EYESBOOKS
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
Atlanta author,
Caterpillar Shoes,
contest,
Children,
Family,
kids,
illustrated,
parenting,
Gift card,
children's picture books,
bugs,
giveaway,
insects,
new release,
book reviewers,
book bloggers,
spring,
Add a tag
We’ve teamed up with Mother Daughter Book Reviews again for our latest release Caterpillar Shoes. You can enter through May 6th for a chance at winning a $50 gift card by clicking the Rafflecopter link:
a Rafflecopter giveaway
You can download our latest children’s picture book for only $.99 for a limited time or it is available FREE if you have Kindle Unlimited. Start your free trial of Kindle Unlimited HERE.
Patches is an energetic caterpillar who is trying to decide what activities to do. In the end, she doesn’t put any limits on herself and lives her life to the full.
Also check out our other kidlit stories:
Lil Glimmer
The Nutt Family: An Acorny Adventure
The Pig Princess
The Bee Bully **AMAZON BEST SELLER**
Eager Eaglets: Birds of Play
Cactus Charlie
Suzy Snowflake
Monsters Have Mommies **AMAZON BEST SELLER**
The Cat Who Lost His Meow
The Christmas Owl **AMAZON BEST SELLER**
Ten Thankful Turkeys **AMAZON BEST SELLER**.
By: Angela Muse,
on 4/1/2015
Blog:
4EYESBOOKS
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
kidlit,
blog,
Family,
kids,
bullying,
writing,
bloggers,
parenting,
spring,
bees,
free,
bugs,
caterpillar,
shoes,
giveaway,
insects,
preschool,
book reviewers,
illustrated children's books,
The Bee Bully,
Atlanta author,
Caterpillar Shoes,
Add a tag
Super excited to announce that our Bee Bully is being featured in Bookbub today and is only $.99 for a limited time. To celebrate we have some free gifts to tell you about. From April 1st – April 5th you can download our latest release, Caterpillar Shoes, absolutely free from Amazon. Check out what’s troubling Patches the caterpillar and the silly decision she makes to live her life to the full. There are some interesting caterpillar facts in the back of this book.
I’ve also got more surprises to share. My friend, Laura Yirak, is also giving away a copy of her delightful bee book, Bumble Babees during this same period.
Scott Gordon has another treat for you. His book, The Most Beautiful Flower will be FREE April 2-April 6. This book is only $.99 on April 1st. Don’t you just love spring! Enjoy these goodies while they last.
By:
andrea joseph,
on 1/20/2015
Blog:
andrea joseph's sketchblog
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
illustrator,
illustration,
doodles,
collage,
moleskine,
ink,
pen,
sketchbook,
blue,
shoes,
sepia,
insects,
spare Moley,
AJ,
andrea joseph,
brown and blue,
Andrea Joseph drawings,
Sketchbook Skool,
Add a tag
Day Four of the post three drawings for five days challenge. Yes, it's taking longer than five days. Way longer.
Today, I chose these three drawings because they are all linked. Obviously, they are, but I thought I'd expand on how they are linked. And, how I work sometimes. So yes, of course, I've worked with the same palette here. Incidentally, blues and browns are my favourite colour combination. I just think they work so beautifully together. They also work great with the cream Moleskine paper which is the sketchbook I worked in here.
I often have a few sketchbooks on the go. Quite a few in fact. A lot are
Moleskine, but not all. These days I'll draw on anything and everything. The top page is from what I call a 'spare sketchbook'. It's the kind of book that doesn't have a specific theme, it's just somewhere where I dump all of my thoughts, play around with images and compositions, practice my handwriting, file all those lovely juicy quotes and lyrics - that I happen upon - for future reference and make lists. Lots of lists. I love these kind of books. Everyone should have this sort of sketchbook. I can guarantee if I look through this book (this one is about seven years old now) I am reminded of and inspired by all sorts of things I'd forgotten.
At one time, when I was going through a drawing funk (they don't happen anymore by the way) and whining about it on my blog I was offered a piece of advice that I've never forgotten. I remember who gave me the advice too. It was
Felicity Graces who some of you may know - although she doesn't draw, or at least, post her drawings anywhere near enough these days. Anyway, where as other people had been telling me to look through the work of my favourite artists or contemporaries, Felicity said definitely do not do that but look back through my own back catalogue of work. It was good advice. That's where you reconnect with what you love to do and the things you love to draw and why you love to draw.
So, that's why I recommend having a 'spare sketchbook'. You'll find so much in there too relight your fire. And, so to these drawings. Both of the two (bottom) drawings came about from developing themes I played around with in the top spread. By taking the notes and ideas and pushing and pulling them in all directions.
And, another thing, the envelope spread is what can happen when something goes wrong on a page; collage. The best way to cover all of your mistakes.
By: yesisedit,
on 11/8/2014
Blog:
Yesisedit's Weblog
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
children,
Life,
story,
Photos,
Fun,
photo,
love,
flowers,
Thoughts,
Art,
nature,
animals,
Photography,
Ideas,
Color,
Poem,
world,
bugs,
Ecology,
thought,
insects,
flower,
sky,
bee,
colorful,
society,
Stories and art,
Say it ain't so,
1,
look,
childrens poems,
Fuel for thought,
My view,
Add a tag
Little bee, no swerving from your line when you deliver the goods back home.
A busy place with no door but when you enter you still use your buzzer.
Then back again from flower to flower, collecting the pollen that gives you power.
It’s home again, little bundles carried to feed the Queen
By: yesisedit,
on 10/17/2014
Blog:
Yesisedit's Weblog
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
Thank yous,
Stories and art,
Food shortages a boom!,
Say it ain't so,
1,
childrens poems,
bail out,
Fair-e-tale,
Words can be funny,
illegal,
Fuel for thought,
Hati,
My view,
The gulf of Mexico,
unlawful,
story,
Fun,
greed,
Thoughts,
Art,
politics,
nature,
science,
humor,
people,
Photography,
Ideas,
Poem,
Children's book,
world,
Ecology,
help,
insects,
society,
Add a tag
What’s on my mind?
Indigenous peoples and their worry about being over run by other populations I guess could sum it up.
I suppose if cougars, wolves, elephants and such learned to shoot guns or band together better they would kick out the human populations who have transgressed on their land but as people go I believe we need to understand the reason for others unlawfully entering areas already overpopulated.
Overpopulation where they come from, economic despair, greed, the making of money into a God and the lust for power over others seem to be good places to start .
Seems to me that as people from a planet with finite resources we need to try to make all places a good place to live so people want to stay where they are. Make everywhere a good place to be.
Sharing with others does not have to mean give away my happiness but it could mean helping you gain yours. I hope I can do that with more than one other and if we all did it for just two other people it would cure the problem in my mind at least.
By:
S.G.Rigney,
on 8/25/2014
Blog:
Fantastical Childrens Books
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
birds,
eggs,
insects,
nest,
hatchlings,
feeding,
nesting,
Nature's design,
wrens,
Add a tag
The Adventures continue…and you can read more here: The Tales of Mr. and Mrs. Wren Filed under: Nature's design Tagged: birds, eggs, feeding, hatchlings, insects, nest, nesting, wrens
By:
Bianca Schulze,
on 8/24/2014
Blog:
The Children's Book Review
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
School,
Mystery,
Chapter Books,
Insects,
Author Showcase,
Problem Solving,
Animal Books,
Cockroaches,
Dr. Sherry L. Meinberg,
Add a tag
Here is book for both girls and boys that not only teaches kids to work together but introduces them to a world of knowledge about a very specific insect that typically does not get the opportunity to star in a children’s book, the cockroach.
Marvin is a beetle with a talent for drawing. James, a young boy, is Marvin's BBF.
The Miniature World of Marvin & James is the first in an early chapter-book series that tells about their adventures. Interestingly, the characters come from a best-selling middle-grade novel Elise Broach wrote titled
Masterpiece. In that story James and Marvin help recover a drawing stolen from an art museum. I haven't read
Masterpiece yet (though I plan to), but Broach's new work most certainly holds its own.
The story starts with James packing for a weeklong vacation at the seaside. Marvin, alas, will not be going and is already missing James. Once James has left Marvin mopes around under the kitchen sink until his mother persuades him to play with his cousin Elaine. The two young beetles have an exciting adventure (and close shave) with an electric pencil sharpener during which Marvin overhears a phone conversation that suggests that Marvin has made a new friend. Marvin spends the remainder of the week worrying that James has replaced him with another BBF.
As in so many books for beginning readers, this book tackles the challenges of friendship. In simple yet poignant sentences Broach parses its complexities while managing to tell a rip-roaring story at the same time. Readers will be transfixed by Marvin's adventures and satisfied with its heartfelt conclusion. Murphy's pen-and-ink illustrations are a delight, capturing an array of insect emotion. A first-rate chapter book all around!
The Miniature World of Marvin & James
by Elise Broach
illustrated by Kelly Murphy
Henry Holt, 104 pages
Published: 2014
By:
Denise Mealy,
on 5/31/2014
Blog:
The Children's Book Review
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
Cultural Wisdom,
Ages 0-3,
Book Lists,
Science,
Interactive,
Fish,
ABC's,
Steve Jenkins,
Gift Books,
featured,
Board Books,
Insects,
Wildlife,
Alphabet Books,
Animal Books,
American Museum of Natural History,
Add a tag
Both ABC Animals and Spot the Animals: A Lift-the-Flap Book of Colors are recommended for toddlers, and make unique gifts.
By: a bad case of books,
on 5/25/2013
Blog:
abadcaseofbooks
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
siblings,
Eric Carle,
insects,
storytime,
storytimes,
ladybugs,
laziness,
David Soman,
Jacky Davis,
Jack Tickle,
Isobel Finn,
imagination,
picture books,
Add a tag
The Very Lazy Ladybug by Isobel Finn & illustrated by Jack Tickle Most ladybugs fly from place to place – but not the Very Lazy Ladybug! She would rather sleep all day and all night. But when she decides it’s time to move to a more comfortable place, she has to find some way to …
By:
Donna J. Shepherd,
on 5/13/2013
Blog:
Topsy Turvy Land - Donna J. Shepherd
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
Donna Shepherd,
Guardian Angel Publishing,
insects,
ladybug,
donna j. shepherd,
Kit Grady,
Bradybug,
children,
Kids,
book,
Add a tag
Bradybug is available any place books are sold. If it's not in stock, just ask for it or order from the publisher here:
http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/bradybug.htm
To find out which bookstores carry Bradybug, click HERE.
I'm up in the NorthWoods where I have a love/hate relationship going with nature. I'm a bug magnet, and they follow me everywhere, even indoors.
And the skies - they've been really blue most days, today, especially, but in the low 80's, a little too hot for me. Fortunately, it cools off nicely at night; and fortunately, I'm not home in Illinois, where it's in the 90's.
|
First Time For Dinner at PJ's Burger Barn - We Will Return! |
Out to dinner almost every night, and too much ice cream. Not to worry, everyone knows vacation ice cream calories don't count.
Two trips to Lake of the Torches Casino. Lots of fun playing penny slots, but enjoy myself too much! My friend, Jeanne, and I spend hours when we go. We don't stop whether we're winning or losing, because we are what you call "players." Anyway, I only went twice and the damages weren't too bad this time.
In my spare time, I've been working on a new romantic comedy, which I forgot I had on my laptop computer. A while back, I had hit a roadblock, but this week inspiration came and now I know which direction I'm going, so I'm forging ahead.
Signing off now. Places to go and things to see.
If you like mysteries, thrillers, romantic suspense, or fun, romantic comedy, check out the
Excerpts and Links to All My Full Length Novels at
http://morgansbooklinks.blogspot.com/
Author Showcase
By Mary G Thompson, for The Children’s Book Review
Published: June 23, 2012
Mary G. Thompson
My first novel, Wuftoom, is about a boy who, at the start of the book, is aware of something nobody else knows: He is not sick with an unknown disease; he is transforming into a monster. The monster visits him at night and waits for Evan to fully transform, telling Evan that life will be better once he joins them. Of course, the Wuftoom don’t believe they’re monsters, and they don’t see themselves as ugly and disgusting the way Evan does. Once you are a monster, the whole meaning of the word changes.
What does the word monster mean? My Oxford American Dictionary defines “monster” as “an imaginary creature that is typically large, ugly, and frightening.” But how do you create something ugly and frightening? Here’s my take on how to do it:
- Start with something everybody thinks is gross, like a worm.
- Make it waaaay bigger than a normal worm.
- Give it a face, but don’t give it a face just like a human’s, with ordinary eyes, nose, mouth, and teeth. Make the eyes different, take the nose away, change the shape of the mouth (I picked a shriveled hole), add fangs.
- Give it a distinctive voice: a rasp, a tone, a chortle. And finally,
- Give it a (disgusting) smell.
Click to purchase.
Now think long and hard about this monster. Draw it. Give it a name. Put yourself in its shoes. If you looked like that monster, what would be a monster to you? If you had a body like a worm’s, maybe it would be weird to see people walking around with knees and elbows and stiff bones. If you had fangs, maybe it would be strange to see people with short, dull, stunted teeth. If your voice was raspy, maybe it would be scary to hear someone talking in a sharp, clear, high voice.
Now think about what you would do if you saw this disgusting giant worm-like monster. Would you scream? Would you cry? Would you beat it with a stick? Would you call it mean names and tell it to go away? Well, now you know why monsters always seem so distrustful of people. Not that they don’t have their bad sides. All I’m saying is, monsters have their own perspectives. And if you were turning into one, you’d have to learn that sooner or later. You might even begin to appreciate the “monster” you have become.
For more information, visit: http://www.marygthompson.com/
The Author Showcase is a place for authors and illustrators to gain visibility for their works. This article was provided by the author. Learn more …
©2012 The Childrens Book Review. All Rights Reserved.
.
These are three of four panels, Mammals, Reptiles, Birds, Insects, created, again, for the Woodland Park Zoo. I can't find the birds and I have to run out the door.... oops. They were going to be used to commemorate the acquisition of an African White Rhino ( on mammal panel )....and be the four sides of a metal bank to be sold in the gift shop...but the Rhino never came...and the bank was never made. The art remains anyway.....
By: Hazel Mitchell,
on 5/4/2012
Blog:
Hazel Mitchell
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
children's illustration,
mother,
mother's day,
flying,
Hazel Mitchell,
sketch for today,
warm up sketch,
gifts,
photoshop,
digital painting,
insects,
flower,
spring flowers,
flowers,
Peonies,
Add a tag
Inspired by Peonies my half hour warm up sketch for today.
Perfect Mother's Day Gifts!
Toodles!
Hazel
By:
nicole,
on 4/18/2012
Blog:
the enchanted easel
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
grasshopper,
bedding,
nursery art,
the enchanted easel,
nicole's nursery art,
cute,
dragonfly,
bugs,
insects,
whimsical,
original paintings,
Add a tag
View Next 25 Posts
Wonderful job on your new blog. Keep up the great work and best wishes for your continued success.<br><br>Warm regards,<br>Donna
Awesome!
Brilliant concept for a book!! Best wishes. Wonderful illustrations Kit!
Thank you, Donna, Nancy, and Kathy! Just saw this. :)