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	<title>Three Star Owl - Functional and Sculptural Clay Artwork with a Natural History &#187; Invertebrata</title>
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		<title>We call it &#8220;The Rock Lobster&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/we-call-it-the-rock-lobster</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/we-call-it-the-rock-lobster#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but it&#8217;s not from the bottom of the sea.  If you had a hard time with the centipede or the solpugid, you may wish to look away.  Or not&#8230;
This is one of my favorite desert arthropods ever, in kind of an oscillating horrified/fascinated can&#8217;t look away from photos of the train wreck kind of way.
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s like living with cats:</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/its-like-living-with-cats</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I assure you,&#8221; the solpugid says, &#8220;it&#8217;s good you are bigger than me.  Otherwise&#8230; well, I couldn&#8217;t account for my actions.&#8221;
(Photos A.Shock)
Here&#8217;s the whole creature, my hand for scale:
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		<title>The night of the enormous centipede</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last big monsoon event brought rain and a spadefoot to our Phoenix area yard.  Tuesday night&#8217;s big monsoon event brought even more rain and a centipede.
This guy is a Scolopendra polymorphus, a Sonoran centipede, sometimes called a tiger centipede.  This one is about 4 inches long (they can grow up to about 7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whew&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/whew</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;back from Sierra Vista and Southwest Wings Festival; tired.  Nice show.  Thanks to everyone who came by, and thank you to the organizers, who did a good job in a new venue.  It&#8217;s always nice to see friends, returning customers, and new faces.
To those of you on my emailing list, if you&#8217;re wondering why you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The lady and the pear</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/the-lady-and-the-pear</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 02:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent posts have been about lady bugs, and prickly pears.  Here&#8217;s one about both: a lady bug on an Opuntia blossom in the Mojave desert.  (Both photos A.Shock)

You can&#8217;t tell, but this particular prickly pear lives in a little piece of Nevada jammed between Arizona and California.  Its chief attraction is that it&#8217;s also stuffed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ladybug heaven was&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/ladybug-heaven-was</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 22:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;our aphid-infested herb garden.
Last week, we found a lady bug (AKA lady beetle, lady bird beetle) wandering around on the ground; we scooped her up and put her on a cilantro plant badly infested with aphids.  A few days later, the flower stalks of the plant were alive with the black-and-orange alligator-like larvae of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild mantid-loaf: imagine another surprise!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/wild-mantid-loaf-imagine-another-surprise</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A praying mantis egg-case is not something you can easily find if you&#8217;re looking for one.  So, imagine our surprise &#8212; again! &#8212; when E  looked up at a random, leafy, and low branch of the big backyard mesquite, and said, &#8220;Hey, look!&#8221;  There was a tiny brown-loaf-looking mantid egg case, stuck to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lil mantids, or: imagine our surprise</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/lil-mantids-or-imagine-our-surprise</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/lil-mantids-or-imagine-our-surprise#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We grow succulents at our house in containers, and some of them can&#8217;t take the heat of the low desert summers, while others can&#8217;t take the hardest frosts of winter. This results in a constant migration of plants inward and outward between the house and yard, depending on the season.  The indoor space the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonus beetles</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/bonus-beetles</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/bonus-beetles#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some boffo blue beetles.
I don&#8217;t know anything about them. We found them last year just below a cloud forest in southern Veracruz, Mexico, on the side of a road that crossed a re-grown lava flow. There were hundreds of them, congregating for reasons possible to guess at, but known only to themselves, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late Night Arthropod: Vaejovis aglow</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/late-night-arthropod-vaejovis-aglow</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/late-night-arthropod-vaejovis-aglow#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scorpions are not a thing at our house.  We don&#8217;t see them frequently, and as previously posted, they&#8217;re more likely to be encountered outside as victims of the swimming pool than inside the house.  But last night E liberated one from the front bathroom, and temporarily incarcerated it in a pint glass.
In the morning, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rare Scottsdale Aquatic scorpion?  afraid not&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/close-in/the-rare-scottsdale-aquatic-scorpion-afraid-not</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/close-in/the-rare-scottsdale-aquatic-scorpion-afraid-not#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was weird, and sad for sure.
In previous posts, I&#8217;ve mentioned the unfortunate similarity of our swimming pool to the LaBrea Tarpits.  Especially in the summer months when there are lots of inexperienced young animals out and about, we often have to carry out water rescues.  Since my studio is at home and looks onto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living with Pests, plus bonus barrel blossoms</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/living-with-pests-plus-bonus-barrel-blossoms</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/living-with-pests-plus-bonus-barrel-blossoms#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=5969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After our latest monsoon event, the yard was freshly rinsed and all dampy.  Everything was making the most of the moist: the succulents were sucking up water, the trees were drinking and dripping, and the whole world was washed in that most deserty perfume of creosote.
Also, the Cactus Longhorn Beetle came out.  Here is its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Further adventures with the Hairhen</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/further-adventures-with-the-hairhen</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/further-adventures-with-the-hairhen#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early Monday morning I nearly stepped on a raccoon kit.  We both came around a wall at the same time, from opposite directions.  Fortunately, no contact was made: the kits are well-grown now.  Also, the Hairhen is very watchful, so we were all very careful to not create an incident.  She and all four kits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walkingstick sequel: in case anyone was wondering&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/walkingstick-sequel-in-case-anyone-was-wondering</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/walkingstick-sequel-in-case-anyone-was-wondering#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 09:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;how the photo E was taking turned out (from this post), here it is.  Now you know what the ventral surface of a NZ walking stick looks like.
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		<title>When hiking New Zealand, always have a walking stick along</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/when-hiking-new-zealand-always-have-a-walking-stick-along</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/when-hiking-new-zealand-always-have-a-walking-stick-along#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 08:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is E, making a new friend in the Kauri Forest.  It may be big and green, but at least it doesn&#8217;t bite, like the Sand flies.
(Photo A. Shock)
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		<title>Close in &#8212; tiny mud pot forms on wall</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/close-in-tiny-mud-pot-forms-on-wall</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/close-in-tiny-mud-pot-forms-on-wall#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, I find a clay pot &#8212; a tiny, perfect clay pot &#8212; on the wall of the house.  They look like little half-buried Mediterranean amphorae, without handles, with a narrow neck and a flared rim, the entire thing only half an inch across.  But they have no openings: like the [...]]]></description>
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