#taxonomyfail — Public Fediverse posts
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Most Pest Control is just a scam to sell you services you don't actually need, so it's not suprising that a lot of pest control marketing is just straight bullshit.
This page about "ant identification", for example, lists 10 species and uses a photograph of the wrong species for 8 of them:
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Content mills are a never ending source of fail-related taxonomic humor.
Did they read their own article? No. No, they did not.
(These are weaver ants, whose ancestors diverged from those of fire ants 100 million years ago)
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Here are my proposed corrections to Spartan Mosquito's ad on Amazon. Instead of showing biting flies, stable flies, gnats, and chiggers, they bought stock photos of a ked (Lipoptena cervi?), a heleomyzid fly (Suillia quinquepunctata?), a gall midge (Dasineura gleditchiae?), and a true velvet mite (Trombidiidae). #insect #repellent #entomology #TaxonomyFail
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OK, how many mistakes can you find? Screenshot is from Spartan Mosquito's Amazon page and shows the organisms repelled by its GO! spray (picaridin). #TaxonomyFail #entomology #insect #acarology #arthropod #nature #repellent #fly #Diptera #mosquitoes #ticks #chiggers #medical
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Give yourself 10 points if you can spot the #TaxonomyFail
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This is one of the more spectacular ones I've seen.