Catalogue of Organisms

The strategies employed by flowering plants to draw in their pollinators are many and varied. Some have entered into exclusive partnerships,...

Dorsum of Neostrinatina mixoppia , from Mahunka (1978). Time for another oribatid. This is Neostrinatina mixoppia , a species described a...

In an earlier post on this site, I discussed some members of the tortoise family Testudinidae. In popular depictions, the terrestrial torto...

For this week's semi-random taxon, I drew the fungal genus Trichangium . Unfortunately, there's not much I can say about this one. T...

Diatoms are one of the world's primary groups of aquatic unicellular algae. Perhaps only the cyanobacteria rival them for ecological sig...

Those of you who have suffered through some of my posts on turrids may recall me discussing the subject of how differences in the mode of d...

For many people, the common domestic honey bee may be the only bee species that they are aware of. In fact, bees are incredibly diverse, wit...