Thread subject: Diptera.info :: taxonomic faux pas
Posted by Christian Kehlmaier on 12-03-2010 13:32
#1
Hi there
Ever tasted 100% pure Eristalis honey?
The following pictures speak for themselves. One makes me smile but the other lets me shake my head in agony. I am sure that there are plenty more examples out there so please feel free to add as many as you find. If mankind needs a proof why morphological species knowledge isn't all that unimportant here it is ...
Posted by Christian Kehlmaier on 12-03-2010 13:37
#2
Ever been bitten by a tipulid?
The title of this brochure is "Fight against
Malaria -- DDT has to be kept under control" published recently by the German Federal Environment Agency!
Edited by Christian Kehlmaier on 12-03-2010 14:01
Posted by Paul Beuk on 12-03-2010 13:46
#3
Consulting knowledgable people is very difficult!
Posted by pwalter on 12-03-2010 14:19
#4
Paul Beuk wrote:
Consulting knowledgable people is very difficult!
Especially when choosing the first picture from Google is so much easier :)
(To be honest, one may be easily fooled while searching for an adequate picture in WikimediaCommons, also)
Posted by pierred on 12-03-2010 20:51
#5
Hi,
On our French forum, one beekeeper told us that almost half of pictures printed in their professional newspapers pictured
Eristalis
Posted by John Bratton on 15-03-2010 15:29
#6
It has a long history: "Out of the strong came forth sweetness".
Posted by rvanderweele on 15-03-2010 16:23
#7
http://www.healthjockey.com/2008/08/26/new-mosquito-virus-to-wipe-out-malaria/
EDIT Paul Beuk: Url made clickable, but I get this:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /2008/08/26/new-mosquito-virus-to-wipe-out-malaria/ on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Edited by Paul Beuk on 15-03-2010 21:28
Posted by Christian Kehlmaier on 08-10-2012 11:08
#8
The following was found by Martin Hauser and Chris Raper and posted at the Diptera-group on FB. But it is simply too good not to be included here as well.
http://store.mary...EKJ8I2.htm
Edited by ChrisR on 08-10-2012 11:10
Posted by ChrisR on 08-10-2012 11:13
#9
Thanks Christian - it looks like one of those usual "howlers" where a company uses an image and then replicates it across their products ... before they check whether it is actually a bee ;)
To be fair to them, it looks like the body is close to a bee ... it's just the wings that are all wrong ;)