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I have a new Scibling! I only got to retain the title of newest blog here for about 24 hours, because yesterday Alex Wild's blog, Myrmecos, was assimilated into the Borg.
You might remember Alex as the first photographer featured last year at the Photo Synthesis blog. He is ScienceBlogs' new resident bug expert. Go say hi!