User:Pro bug catcher


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“

Don't accept the chauvinistic tradition that labels our era the age of mammals. This is the age of arthropods. They outnumber us by any criterion – by species, by individuals, by prospects for evolutionary continuation.

”

— Stephen Jay Gould, 1988

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich

Me, Myself and I

I am Canadian and Quebecer .

I have a B.Sc. in biology by problem-based learning from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
I have a M.Sc. in plant science, but focused on insects, from McGill University with the Neotropical Environment Option in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
I am working towards a Ph.D. in biology, in the Ecology, Evolution and Behavior program at Indiana University Bloomington.

My interests

I am mainly interested in biology, especially entomology and behavioural ecology, insect evolution, but also entomophagy (not quite biology). I usually find most science subjects interesting. I like to cook and eat well. Excluding Wikipedia, my spare time goes to photography (especially insect macro, see my Flickr account), do what I can for the planet, reading (especially fantasy & fiction), listening to music (especially celtic, celtic fusion, alternative rock, folk-rock and rock en español), and watching anime.

Something I want to learn: How to use Haidinger's brush.

fr

Cet utilisateur a pour langue maternelle le français.

en

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

es-3

Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel avanzado de español.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Arthropods.

Canis lupus

This user capitalizes the genus and prints scientific names in italics.

Useful links

Minor edits

Pictures

Articles

Things I used to spell wrong:

originally (takes two l's)
characterized (takes an h)
addresses (takes two d's) [1]
captioned (takes one n) [2]
species (the singular is also species)
dependent (does not take an a) [3]

My contributions

1st edit 1000th edit 2000th edit 3000th edit

Chrysiridia rhipheus
/> Urania sloanus (Oct.11.07)
/> Manzana
/> List of unrefined sweeteners
/> Miomoptera
/> Tomopteris
/> Zuckerbaby
/> Kayamb (from fr:Kayamb)
/> Guira Cuckoo (from fr:Guira)
/> Shepherdia canadensis
/> White Witch (moth)
/> Maleo
/> Topknot Pigeon
/> Sustainable development
/> Giant Hummingbird
/> Chapulines
/> Nopal
/> Dragon Rider
/> Jan Krzysztof Kluk‎
/> Omphalea
/> Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
/> Yacon syrup
/> Gynandromorph
/> Paperwhite
/> Canna (plant)
/> Sky High Original Soundtrack
/> Entomophagy
/> Pupa
/> Limenitis arthemis
/> Scatophaga stercoraria
/> Eurosta solidaginis
/> Pepsis heros
/> Spotted Asparagus Beetle (See Asparagus beetle)
/> Hercules moth (Coscinoscera hercules)
/> The Blue Butterfly (See List of Quebec movies)
/> Idea leuconoe
/> Ornithogalum pyrenaicum
/> Blue Morpho
/> Serendipity the Pink Dragon (anime film)
/> Stigmella ridiculosa (Smallest lepidoptera)
/> Scale (zoology)#Fish scales (needs a good SVG diagram, e.g. [4])

Legend

= Started by me
= Almost started
= Translated
= Expanded
= Illustrated (see my gallery)
= To do

Rant

I agree with User:Shanes' (now slightly outdated) rant: Why tags are evil

E.g. Neverwinter, with practically a full screen of notices before the article!

My travels

Home:	CAN
America:	USA	MEX	GUA
	SLV	BLZ	HON
	NIC	CRI	PAN
	ECU	GUF
Europe:	FRA	BEL	CHE
	PRT
Asia:	THA	VNM	KOR
	IDN	CHN
Africa:	EGY

Manual to finding scientific name etymology

Finding the etymology of scientific names can sometimes be challenging, here are a few tricks I've gathered to help:

Understanding and Learning Scientific Names of Species by professors for the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, explains some of the reasons etymology is important. The page also lists a few books that might be useful.

Online

Google (try for example Chrysiridia + latin), Google Books and Google Scholar sometimes have the answer
Online Latin-English dictionaries (but rarely successful).
Wiktionary sometimes works, if it does you often should link the word using the proper InterWikimedia link: [[wikt:]]
User:Pengo/Latin subpage
Dictionary of Botanical epithets
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia available online

Books

Stern, William (2005). Plant Names Explained: Botanical Terms and Their Meaning. Horticulture Books. ISBN 1558707476.
Stearn, William T. (2004). Botanical Latin. Timber Press. ISBN 0881926272.
Brown, Roland Wilbur (2000). Composition of Scientific Words. Smithsonian Books. ISBN 1560988487.
Borror, Donald J. (1988). Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms. Mayfield Publishing Company. ISBN 0874840538. [5]

(See User_talk:Pengo/archive_4#Latin_name for attribution)

Trivia

I am half Canadian, one quarter Belgian and one quarter French. Plus my French ancestors were ultimately from Norway (i.e. I might have viking blood). Paul Verlaine was my great-great-grand uncle, I'm also related to Alfred Pellan and Félix Leclerc.

Like 75-85% of Europeans I have cusps of Carabelli, but according to my dentist, mine are particularly large.


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