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"An Inordinate Fondness" is a celebration of beetles—of their indescribable beauty, amazing forms, and astonishing diversity. We hope you will join us in this celebration every month, as we highlight the best that the blogosphere has to offer on this fascinating group of animals.
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An Inordinate Fondness The monthly blog carnival devoted to beetles

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An Inordinate Fondness · 11M ago

An Inordinate Sadness

Cicindela sexguttata (six-spotted tiger beetle) Not long ago, Bjørn Østman at Carnival of Evolution asked if blog carnivals are still relevant.  In his words: Do they get read by enough people to be considered useful? Do the people who read them actually click through to blog posts they wouldn’...
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An Inordinate Fondness · 1Y ago

AIF #15 and #16

Two issues of AIF have been produced since the last update here, and I’ve been remiss in not announcing them in a timely fashion.  AIF #15 was graciously hosted last month by The Dragonfly Woman, while AIF #16 was issued a few days ago at Dave Hubble’s Ecology Spot.  For each of these ho...
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An Inordinate Fondness · 1Y ago

AIF #14 at Wanderin’ Weeta

Susannah at Wanderin’ Weeta) not only has an inordinate fondness for beetles, she has been desperate for them!  You see, beetles and other critters are a seasonal fix in the Great North where she lives, and by the time March comes along she’s getting pretty antsy.  What better critter fi...
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An Inordinate Fondness · 1Y ago

AIF #13 at The Dispersal of Darwin

It’s the weekend, and what better use of your leisure time than reading AIF #13, compiled by Michael Barton at The Dispersal of Darwin. An appropriate month for Michael to host this issue, as February is the birth month of Charles Darwin – supreme hero to evolutionists and coleopterists ...
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An Inordinate Fondness · 1Y ago

AIF #12 at Bug Girl’s Blog

This likely comes as news to nobody, as I’m a couple of weeks late in announcing this – AIF #12 is up at Bug Girl’s Blog. Posted on Martin Luther King’s birthday, Bug Girl thought maybe it was a stretch to use it as an excuse to celebrate the earth’s most diverse taxon ...
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An Inordinate Fondness · 1Y ago

Submission deadline is near

The January issue of AIF is getting some big-league support from Bug Girl, who will host the January issue. She has lots of followers, and you know you’d love to give each and every one of them a chance to see your blog – submit your best beetle post (or more) from the past month [...]
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An Inordinate Fondness · 1Y ago

AIF #11 – Kindergarten Kunstkammer

An Inordinate Fondness #11 – Kindergarten Kunstkammer is hot off the press, and you MUST read it! Adrian Thysse, the polymath behind The Bug Whisperer (as well as Voyages Around My Camera, A Natural Evolution, and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Centraal), adopts an appropriately Renaissance theme to ...
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An Inordinate Fondness · 1Y ago

AIF #10

Heath Blackmon over at Coleopterists Corner has posted the tenth edition of An Inordinate Fondness.  This was Heath’s first blog carnival hosting gig (could there have been any more appropriate?), but you wouldn’t know it by looking – 14 coleocontributions artfully presented, each ...
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An Inordinate Fondness · 1Y ago

Say What?

That’s right – we’ve been hard at work lining up hosts for AIF during the next few months, and boy do we have some heavy hitters lined up. After a quick trip home to papa during October, the carnival begins a whirlwind tour of some great natural history blogs. First up in November ...
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An Inordinate Fondness · 1Y ago

AIF #8 – Meet the Beetles!

An Inordinate Fondness #8 is now up at Arthropoda, and I must say it is one of the most impressive issues to date. Mike Bok has given us yet another delightful version drawing on the obvious parallels between the “beetles” (taxon) and the “Beatles” (musical group). This has b...
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