Monday, October 26, 2009

Australian Museum

Natural history! Birds! Spiders! Holy shit, a whole lot of spiders!

This is the one I'm most concerned about:















But I wouldn't like to see this one either, even though it's harmless.
















Or this one:















Or this giant wasp:
















These I'm ok with:















































All of the bug specimens bring up a question: why are museums still doing the pin-a-bug-to-a-card thing? Surely technology has advanced far enough to give us improved methods of displaying dead insects? Or is it just for the sake of old-timey aesthetics?

And to everyone who ever tried to send me on a snipe hunt... eat it. I found one.

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