Although slightly modified from what E.O. Wilson actually said (birds, blogs, same thing right?), the title is most certainly true! Yesterday I introduced you to my blogosphere project, where I began looking at how insect blogs are related. Today, you’ll see the piece de resistance, and we’ll talk a little about what we see! Hold on tight and get ready for a bloggy family reunion!
Drum roll please…. dadadadadadadadada….
After my post about the blogs that I check daily, Alex Wild commented that someone should map out the connections between the bug blog community, and I thought what better way to do so then to apply some phylogenetic systematics to the blogging community! It was also good timing for this project, as Willi Hennig’s birthday is April 20, and I thought it’d be an interesting tribute to the man who revolutionized the field of taxonomy and systematics. So without further ado, I present to you something that I’m sure will be gracing the cover of Nature in the near future and which will set me up for the first Nobel Prize awarded to a blog:
Courtesy of Wikipedia.org
Ever wonder what species of Pseudoscorpions are running around under your desk? Wonder what a Pseudoscorpion even is? Check out the latest edition of the Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification (CJAI) to find out!
And to celebrate a paper on Pseudoscorpions, here’s a photo of a Pseudoscorpion on Paper!
