Is Pipe Smoking Changing?

[seldom]

Theraphosids are cool! While doing research on bats in Africa I frequently encountered Pelinobius. I've noticed that Latrodectus are abundant in prairie dog colonies in the west. Seems like every old burrow unoccupied by prairie dogs has them. I've wondered about that.

Hummingbird Hawk Moth is often the colloquial name for Macroglossum, especially M. stellatarum. These are distributed in the Old World and not found in America. In Kentucky you have members of the genus Hemaris which are typically called Hummingbird Moths or Clearwing Moths (or here in Europe Bee-Hawk Moths). This illustrates the problem with colloquial names!

 

[Chasing Embers]

This illustrates the problem with colloquial names!

No kidding, here's what we have here.

Seems like every old burrow unoccupied by prairie dogs has them.

Xenesthis spiders often share burrows with Microhylid frogs. Interspecies symbiosis is really an interesting phenomenon to witness.

 

[seldom]

Ah, that is a familiar looking moth! Definitely Hemaris. I think thysbe or diffinis. You can see why they are sometimes called "Clearwing moths".

 

[mikethompson]

I've now lived long enough to see a pipe smoking thread turn into a butterfly/bird/moth conversation. Interesting critters, never seen those before!

 

[bassbug]

@embers and seldom
I realize you guys are trying very hard to be precise and specific about these things but please, stop using such common and everyday names for them and start using the proper terminology and taxonomy.
Example: "Big ass moth" or "big fat hairy spider"
We real aficionados would appreciate it :nana:

 

[Chasing Embers]

"big fat hairy spider"

Shhhhh! They don't like to be called fat! 8O

 

[5star]

Can we get back on topic . . . shaving with double edge razors ?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Hah!
Pipe smoking hasn't changed but smokers have.
And that stock photo- looks like a mouse crossed with a bat and a bee.

 

[trouttimes]

Obviously from many of these post, pipe smoking has fallen into bad times. All sorts of degenerats are smoking now. What happen the class, being a gentleman of high standings, proper control of ones self? People, notice I didn't say gentlemen, please try and pretend you have been here before. We are better than common cigarette and cigar smokers. Act so. Now go put on some socks and a proper jacket!

 

[seldom]

I realize you guys are trying very hard to be precise and specific about these things

Specific by definition, in this context, refers to species. You'll notice that although sometimes going to the species level in this discourse we frequently only go to the generic or family level of identification.
But okay. Bugs.
(of course now using the colloquial use of the word "bug" which is to say not indicating the "true bugs" or members of the insect order hemiptera).

 

[brian64]

Now go put on some socks and a proper jacket!

The jacket thing is simply out of the question...but I'll at least consider the socks over the course of my next bowl.

 

[seldom]

Obviously from many of these post, pipe smoking has fallen into bad times. All sorts of degenerats are smoking now. What happen the class, being a gentleman of high standings, proper control of ones self? People, notice I didn't say gentlemen, please try and pretend you have been here before. We are better than common cigarette and cigar smokers. Act so. Now go put on some socks and a proper jacket!

I assumed that the errors in grammar and spelling were done for comedic effect. Other posts by this individual cause me to question this assumption.

 

[olkofri]

I think he's being jocular.

 

[Chasing Embers]

We are better than common cigarette and cigar smokers.

Been a pipe smoker for almost thirty years, and a tobacco user for a bit longer. Cigarette smokers tend to be a bit more social, and the world at large despises all of us.