That dance when a big juicy fly gets caught in your web…
This is Argiope aurantia, the common yellow garden spider with yellow and black abdominal markings and a white cephalothorax. These spiders are quite common across the United States, [[Argiope argentata, the silver argiope, an orb-weaver found from southern California to Florida in the US, all the way down to Argentina]] and this one in particular is from Plate I in the article “Three Common Spiders of Laguna” by Margaret Moles in The 4th Annual Report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory (1916), which is digitally available in @biodivlibrary
A Justice department attorney representing the people owed money by
Toys R Us doesn’t believe the bankrupt corporation should pay lavish
bonuses to the same executives who drove the toy store chain into the
ground.
Australia Proportional Representation Society of Australia http://prsa.org.au/ (desperately needs Proportional Representation in the lower house) @GeoffreyHPowell
A disturbed young man (whose name I deliberately do not use) deliberately murdered Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz at the École Polytechnique.
Because they were women.
I chose to use the roses because they were part of a candlelight vigil in on December 6th, 2016 in Chilliwack, BC. People across Canada continue to share in this sorrow.
Decades later, Canadians continue to mourn, but the sad fact is that violence against women in Canada shows no sign of abating. Perhaps we need more than a day.
A disturbed young man (whose name I deliberately do not use) deliberately murdered Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz at the École Polytechnique.
Because they were women.
I chose to use the roses because they were part of a candlelight vigil in on December 6th, 2016 in Chilliwack, BC. People across Canada continue to share in this sorrow.
Decades later, Canadians continue to mourn, but the sad fact is that violence against women in Canada shows no sign of abating. Perhaps we need more than a day.
