Archive for October, 2012

Spooky Bloco Time

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

Halloween is very near! So why not beat your drum in the evening:

In costume no less: the world famous samba band “Bloco em Foco”

It was rather cold outside on Oak Street Plaza so I chose to wear the very old (but warm) Yeti suit that I had on last Holler!Ween. It worked out as expected.

Witch and Devil Surdo players

I was told that there were lots of characters in the audience in costume as well but I had a hard time seeing anything in that yeti costume.

One charater in particular

Yes, none other than Cam the Ram stopped by to do a little dance and pose for pictures. Lotta ham on that sheep.

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Counting bugs on the wall

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

What a great idea! Collect some insects and pin them to a wall:

Cicadas surrounded by giant leaf insects and walking sticks

Atlas moths around a framed beetle motif

Giant clear winged cicadas around smaller colored winged cicadas around a rhinoceros beetle

More stick insects around giant leaf bugs with an assortment of beetles in the center

Finally alternating locusts and cicadas with a stag beetle center

This is just a small sample of the work by artist Jennifer Angus now showing on the walls of the Lincoln Center Art Gallery in Fort Collins, Colorado. The media are real insects collected from Thailand and Malaysia for the most part and each are pinned into the walls at the art gallery.

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Halloween Hoedown

Sunday, October 21st, 2012

Still 10 days until October 31st. Somewhere in this video we are dressed as bedbugs.

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First Club

Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

The first Colorado State University club was started by this guy:

Clarence P. Gillette

100 years ago it was called simply “The Entomology Club” then it was changed to the “Gillette Club” in 1925. Somehow the students  named it “The Gillette Infestation” for a time and then back to the Gillette Club by 1945. Now it’s called the “Gillette Entomology Club” which seems like a good compromise. We like to call it the G.E.C.

Fun things to do at the Bug Bash

With the Bug Petting Zoo, Bee Hive exhibition, Ask an Entomologist, Bee Pong, Bed Bug Bean Bag toss, and a bunch more!

Ghost Mantis on my arm

My task at the CSU Bug Bash was to show off some of the insects at the bug zoo. In the above photo the ghost mantis is walking toward my faded Black Sheep tattoo that was created by bed bug bites last month.

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