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The problem with iStockphoto, captured in a single photo

April 14, 2009 by myrmecos

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Posted in Taxonomy | Tagged fail, istockphoto | 12 Comments

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  1. on April 14, 2009 at 9:22 am ihateaphids

    awesome


  2. on April 14, 2009 at 9:25 am Roberto Keller

    Try to look at the bright side Alex. The caption could have read “the drosophila gather honey on an orchid.”


  3. on April 14, 2009 at 10:10 am Kevin Z

    OMG! Huge FAIL!! My wife took her pictures off of iPhoto when she started to make money as a photographer. Wasn’t worth the 20 cents a download to have her reputation tainted by such unprofessionalism, such as this (my opinion, not hers).


  4. on April 14, 2009 at 11:56 am eheupel

    Holy failure Batman!! Look it’s a bat on that pine tree flower!


  5. on April 14, 2009 at 12:01 pm Irradiatus

    Wow, they even got the phylum wrong! How the hell does one mistake a hummingbird’s wings for a fruit fly’s?

    🙂


  6. on April 14, 2009 at 1:30 pm Gunnar

    I didn’t even know flowers had internal fertilisation and such extreme degrees of sexual dimorphism.


  7. on April 14, 2009 at 2:17 pm Bug Girl

    Sadly, teh FAIL is all over the interwebs 😦


  8. on April 14, 2009 at 7:56 pm cicindela

    epic fail!


  9. on April 14, 2009 at 9:17 pm nicholas

    Hahaha, hilarious! 😀
    Wednesday just got better.


  10. on July 12, 2009 at 6:06 am zayzayem

    Just thought of this…
    Geneticists mutate the Drosophila all the time. Maybe it’s an experimental escapee that now looks identical to honey bee and has behavioral conditioning to collect honey bee… aha…


  11. on July 12, 2009 at 6:29 am Taxonomy bugs (I mean fail) « It’s Alive!!

    […] there is this epic taxonomy fail Alex Wild at myrmecos blog spotted on iStock Photo – either that or someone mutated a Drosophila a bit too […]


  12. on July 12, 2010 at 6:12 pm Monday Night Mystery « Myrmecos Blog

    […] 12, 2010 by myrmecos We’ve pointed and laughed at iStockphoto enough already. Let’s pick on Getty […]



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