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I maintain this page for use by students in my classes, biology majors, and anyone interested in, a) cicada killer wasps (Crabronidae) and, b) how marine animals control the salt content and volume of their body fluids, an area of comparative animal physiology known as osmoregulation. The page also contains quotations bearing on the nature of science and several links for the interest and amusement of all, including a jackalope page.

The picture to the right is Arcimboldo’s Water, painted in 1566. The animals which make up the person are represented so accurately (unusual in a time when whales were often figured with scales and spouting water) that many of them may be identified to genus and species. However, Guiseppi got the eyes wrong on the crab, Cancer pagurus.