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For one can never get enough Ted Kennedy. But more importantly, on Thoughts this week we have a tender story about butterfly babies and backyard habitats. Plus a story about a new computer malware that is particularly nasty. And of course, as we all need more of the wonderful Ted Kennedy in our lives, my tale of just how I shall explain the story of Ted Kennedy to my granddaughter. Much more.

There are thousands of varieties of the insect, their movements are fascinating and their population numbers are excellent indicators of the environment. They transform, within weeks, from squishy, accordion-like caterpillars to winged creatures whose pollination keeps wild plants and flowers alive. Some, like the famed Monarch, migrate thousands of miles with the seasons, while many may never travel more than 100 yards from where they were born. "There's a lot going for them," said Jeffrey Glassberg, president and founder of the North American Butterfly Association, which he runs out of an office in his Convent Station home. And with butterfly...

Of Moths and Men Moth-like Agencies Pose as Economic Butterflies Wayne Lusvardi - The Pasadena Pundit Let's see if you can make sense of the following confusing picture using examples drawn from Southern California but certainly replicated across the country. A New Obsolescent Reservoir? Earlier this month California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein proposed a $9.3 billion bond to build yet another new reservoir in Northern California to inconsistently "offset the climate change impacts of reduced snow pack and higher flood flows" and to finally route water around the Sacramento Delta to Southern California. But in 2004,...

<p>So this summer,there will be another confrontation. BillO lives on Long Island. I plan on chartering at least one bus - hopefully more - from New York City. We'll visit Bill with vets and Jews and African-Americans and peacefully set forth our grievances. We'll ask for an apology and suggest ways in which BillO might improve his behavior in the future.</p>

All the flowers are fading and ragged, just a few butterflies still hanging on. http://www.pbase.com/tsiya/root http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/

The St. John's County Agriculture Center is about 3 miles up the road from home, almost like having a private garden. Most days I have the place to myself, always something to pose for a camera.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.) If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!) A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.) A cockroach will live nine days without its head before...

This is the GAYEST logo ever! The rest of the blog (it is linked at Weasel Zipper) is the usual "Kill the infidels! Kill the Zionists!" yada yada yada

A germ that kills males triggers a vicious cycle of increasing female promiscuity and male sexual exhaustion in a species of butterfly, scientists report. Male-killing bacteria known as Wolbachia are extremely widespread in insects, found in more than one-fifth of species. The germs can turn males to females and cause infected females to reproduce without males. Scientists had assumed these bacteria would profoundly alter the natural mating patterns of their hosts, but only had scant evidence of what these changes would entail in the wild.

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SAN DIEGO - The wildfires that charred vast areas of Southern California last fall may also have put the survival of two rare species of butterflies at risk, researchers say. Some experts say it became apparent even while the fires were still smoldering that the flames that blackened more than 745,000 acres, destroyed more than 3,400 homes and killed nearly two dozen people also threatened the existence of the Hermes copper and Thorne's hairstreak butterflies. "When I saw the magnitude of devastation, I realized in my lifetime I might see one, possibly two species go extinct," said biological consultant Michael...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A mockingbird gobbled hundreds of rare butterflies in a zoo exhibit over two weeks while evading attempts to catch it. The bird apparently entered the Indianapolis Zoo's conservatory through a vent or window. The exhibit had about 1,500 butterflies and was due to close Labor Day. The lost butterflies were worth about $1,000. Brilliant neon butterflies called blue morphos were especially hard hit. The bird hid in the 65-foot-tall conservatory until late July, when zoo staff members soaked it with a hose and finally caught it in a net. "You can't blame the bird. He was doing...