I was sitting in a Museum Operations meeting on Tuesday and Debbie said “I’m so excited about the new phone system and changing our fiscal year”. It made me chuckle to think that someone could be excited about the dates of a fiscal year. I know different people find different things exciting so I asked the rest of the group what they found exciting. Here are some of the answers I received. (some answers more silly and some more deepRead more
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Doodling
As you know, I cannot draw. Last week’s Museum’s bi-weekly operations meeting was longer than usual. This is a meeting of staff across all the different departments at the Museum to discuss issues or events that might affect Museum operations. I started to doodle. This is what my doodle looked like: I was sitting next to Wendy. This is what her doodle looked like: Here’s the photo of the folks she was doodling (Sorry Darcy, you missed theRead more
Big Word of the Month: Myrmecophily
Uli, our Butterfly House Director, after reading Rachael’s last post, sent along this information: Myrmecophily: literally “ant-love” (as opposed to Myrmecophobia: the fear of ants). The term is applied to mutually beneficial associations between ants and other organisms such as plants, arthropods, and fungi. An example of a “butterfly-ant love” affair is the Malaysian Hairstreak (Anthene emolus) that selects plants hosting aggressive Weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) to lay eggs so that the ants can protect the growing caterpillar against otherRead more