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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Of small animals</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Poppy</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/04/poppy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of pictures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of small animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The May monsoon endowed plants with a Made-In-China verisimilitude:


Knee-scratching thistles are now several metres high, and Karik and Valya could have told you all about the monstrous dragonflies:
In the spot where just a moment or two ago there had lain a tiny dragonfly, there now moved a thick, long, log-like, jointed body with a huge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Butterflies</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/butterflies/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/07/02/butterflies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of pictures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of small animals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Huge numbers yesterday on this walk, on some very quiet meadows at between 400 and 600m. First Gonepteryx rhamni, our Brimstone:

Next is I think a Clouded Yellow, Colias croceus:

Then Papilio machaon, macaón in Spanish, Common swallowtail and a host of other names in English. We saw a couple of dozen:

A swallowtail story from The child&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competition videos from the Portuguese Racing Sardine Club</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/11/competition-videos-from-the-portuguese-racing-sardine-club/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/06/11/competition-videos-from-the-portuguese-racing-sardine-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of small animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the sea]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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The British Sardine Racing association (popups) is &#8220;dedicated to breeding a better Sardine,  revolutionising training methods, and the breeding of both pedigree fish, and Hybrids, such as the Sardine/Shark crossbreed.&#8221;
The Living Age (1919): &#8220;&#8230; eagerly bending over a long, narrow tank on the floor. They were racing sardines, taking them out of a tin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effect of rainfall on wood ants and Ukrainians</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/23/effect-of-rainfall-on-wood-ants-and-ukrainians/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/23/effect-of-rainfall-on-wood-ants-and-ukrainians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of birds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of drink]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of men and women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wood ants descending rapidly en masse from a Quercus ilex on Montseny at the onset of a sharp shower:
 
Having spent several decades standing under trees waiting for the rain to stop, it is my firm belief that small ants do not flee from the rain as do big ones, although their level of activity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of toads</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/14/in-praise-of-toads/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/14/in-praise-of-toads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 11:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Late Middle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of God]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of small animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of wars, games and stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[George Sandford has left a fascinating comment on this post, which deals with an amusing 19th century literary-historical hoax&#8211;purported correspondence between Ferdinand the Catholic and an esoteric global selection of fellow-monarchs. 
George is family of the alleged editor, Brother Antonio the Goth, and thus of the Christian clan kidnapped by the Moors when they invaded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scorpiano</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/10/scorpiano/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/10/scorpiano/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 19:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of pictures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of sicknesses and venoms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of small animals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of those who go on foot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Samir over at View from Fez says that around 100 kids die annually from scorpion bites in Morocco. They&#8217;re quite common in Spain too. Here&#8217;s one in the gardens of Can Ferrero in Barcelona&#8217;s Zona Franca district that scared the hell out of me:

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		<title>Flying stag beetle</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/05/flying-stag-beetle/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/05/flying-stag-beetle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 09:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lucanus cervus (Ciervo volante) on the hills above San Juan de Plan in the Pyrenees of Huesca:
 
Proyecto Ciervo Volante writes:
Flight abilities seem, in principle, well developed. Fight speed reaches 6 km/h (D&#8217;Ami, 1981) but dispersal abilities are unknown. There are XIX century tales about mass movements (Darwin, 1871; Lacroix, 1968; Paulian &#038; Baraud, 1982). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monkey anis</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/01/16/monkey-anis/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/01/16/monkey-anis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Of drink]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mona:

(I once met a Tangier man who claimed to own a Barbary ape called Lisa, but let&#8217;s not go there, or here either.)
Copywriters have moved on since Darwin was alleged to have said, &#8220;It&#8217;s the best, science says so and I&#8217;m not lying&#8221;:

I use the sweet version of Anis del Mono in pastry cooking. Drinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old lady animal fight</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/01/05/old-lady-animal-fight/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/01/05/old-lady-animal-fight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of small animals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two elderly ladies have just met for the first time and are sounding each other out:
A: My dog is so intelligent it stands by the door and woofs whenever it wants to go out and have a poo.
B: My cat is so intelligent it comes in at five o’clock in the morning and jumps on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pine processionary caterpillars leaving nest several months early</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/12/17/pine-processionary-caterpillars-leaving-nest-several-months-early/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/12/17/pine-processionary-caterpillars-leaving-nest-several-months-early/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
I suspect their algorithm is rather crude, and the seasons are rather vague along the Barcelona coast, but these are meant to emerge in spring (typically late January here), not late November. &#8220;The pine processionary caterpillar is a pest whose northward spread in France is being fostered by climate change. INRA researchers in Orleans are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of shit shovellers</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/12/in-praise-of-shit-shovellers/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/12/in-praise-of-shit-shovellers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Leoncio Urabayen (La tierra humanizada, 1949) says that the dung beetle (escarabajo pelotero) is to a hive of bees as the pyramids are to the Empire State. This is unfair:


&#8220;The American Institute of Biological Sciences reports that dung beetles save the United States cattle industry an estimated US$380 million annually through burying above-ground livestock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glowworm jumps</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/18/glowworm-hops/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/18/glowworm-hops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Rollover. (Glowworm is freaky, WWWWontserrat accurate.)
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		<title>Birds shat-up by dung-beetles</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/12/birds-shat-up-by-dung-beetles/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/12/birds-shat-up-by-dung-beetles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/12/birds-shat-up-by-dung-beetles/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Laura Gibbs is posting, translating and commenting Latin fables. Today&#8217;s is rather good: &#8220;The Birds were in a terrible Fright once, for fear of Gun-shot from the Beetles. And what was the Bus&#8217;ness, but the little Balls of Ordure, that the Beetles had rak&#8217;d together, the Birds took for Bullets.&#8221; Read the rest.
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		<title>Lizard</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/07/lizard/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/07/lizard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Some species sit still and others don&#8217;t. Lizards tend to the latter, usually only letting you close on them if they are petrified or ill. This one appears to be neither, and remained reasonably calm even when I almost fell off my log onto its.
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		<title>Flutterby</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/05/flutterby/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/07/05/flutterby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Front elevation:

Plan view:

These butterflies are incredibly lazy, and there are lots of them. Something wrong there.
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