{"id":2855,"date":"2013-07-09T00:29:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T04:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2014-04-02T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T19:06:12","slug":"tuesday-tunes-mosquito-yeah-yeah-yeahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/tuesday-tunes-mosquito-yeah-yeah-yeahs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tunes: Mosquito &#8211; Yeah Yeah Yeahs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey blog, what&#8217;s new? Oh, that&#8217;s right, nothing lately&#8230; My bad. To say the past few months have been hectic would be a bit of an understatement, but that&#8217;s a tale for another time. To kickstart my bloggy brain cells, I figured I&#8217;d ease back into it with a Tuesday Tune, then maybe a new photo, and quite possibly a <del>rage-driven rant<\/del> observation on society\u00a0later this week. Fun!<\/p>\n<p>Normally with Tuesday Tunes we get a song that may have insects in the title, the lyrics, or maybe a cameo in a video. This week&#8217;s song not only features a great title &amp; lyrics, plus a psychedelic &amp; morphologically awesome video, but also some killer album art!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/4\/4f\/YeahYeahYeahsMosquito.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/4\/4f\/YeahYeahYeahsMosquito.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">No, I don&#8217;t know why a mosquito is changing a baby, but damn if that&#8217;s not a great album cover!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meet Mosquito by indie rockers Yeah Yeah Yeahs (be sure to watch to the end) &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3dx8aLDJrAY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you thought natural selection would punish a hyper-obvious mosquito like the one in the video, you&#8217;d normally be correct. However, the psychedelic\u00a0<em>Psorophora<\/em>\u00a0<em>ferox\u00a0<\/em>would beg to differ!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runwiththewild.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/images\/raw\/50K080OQ50OQ80K0W0K0QQJRSQQ0KQNRFKUR409RSQJRQQDRW0S0MQJRP0S0P0CRMQ3RSQURM0TQP0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Psorophora ferox<\/em> demonstrating that art isn&#8217;t always crazier than nature! Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runwiththewild.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Chute<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/cameronwebb.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Cameron Webb<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mozziebites\" target=\"_blank\">@Mozziebites<\/a>) for alerting me to this song when it came out earlier this spring!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>This song is available on iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/mosquito\/id605981017?i=605982526&amp;uo=4\" target=\"itunes_store\">Mosquito &#8211; Mosquito (Deluxe Version)<\/a>\u00a0by Yeah Yeah Yeahs<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey blog, what&#8217;s new? Oh, that&#8217;s right, nothing lately&#8230; My bad. To say the past few months have been hectic would be a bit of an understatement, but that&#8217;s a tale for another time. To kickstart my bloggy brain cells, I figured I&#8217;d ease back into it with a Tuesday Tune, then maybe a new <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/09\/tuesday-tunes-mosquito-yeah-yeah-yeahs\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,16,199],"tags":[611,96,598,249,599],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-pop-culture","category-tuesday-tunes","tag-art","tag-culicidae","tag-diptera","tag-music","tag-pop-culture","category-151-id","category-16-id","category-199-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}