Crane fly Haikus

I ran across some interesting poems today.  I thought I would share them here. 



Enjoy!

When a critter eats a critter

Thus far in all my searching I have found one larvae which may be Neophylidorea (the genus I am revising). When I dissected this larvae today to expose the mouthparts I found this! (right) within the digestive tract of the unknown limnophilini species. It's to be expected as these are likely predaceous. Any ideas on the identity of the prey? The predator was found living in cold water muck with emergent vegetation.

My other specimen clearing excitement today was attempting to understand how the male and female are attached in copula. I haven't fully cleared the pair, but I have been able to see some of the inter-workings (below) and the pair has stayed connected.

Neodarwinism

I am currently taking a class where were are discussing eye evolution (monophyletic or polyphyetic?) and the term neodarwinism came up in discussion. I recalled a discussion by Mayr on this term and its inappropriate use. So I googled it and found this lecture by Richard Dawkins. I thought I would share it here as I found it interesting and helpful as a review of the history of ideas of evolution by natural selection.