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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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on April 14, 2009 at 9:22 am ihateaphids

awesome
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.”
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).
on April 14, 2009 at 11:56 am eheupel

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

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

Sadly, teh FAIL is all over the interwebs 😦
on April 14, 2009 at 7:56 pm cicindela

epic fail!
on April 14, 2009 at 9:17 pm nicholas

Hahaha, hilarious! 😀
Wednesday just got better.
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…
on July 12, 2009 at 6:29 am Taxonomy bugs (I mean fail) « It’s Alive!!

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

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