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ENY 1001 Bugs and People Additional Readings Some of your additional readings for ENY 1001 will be included in full and others will link to external websites. The information found in these readings will be included on the class exams. Click on a topic to access the reading or web link. Class is dismissed on Fridays, so please use that time to complete these readings. Your exams will consist of 50 multiple choice questions and will be taken from (1) lectures, (2) readings from your required text and (3) required readings from the Internet sites and additional readings listed below. Readings from the text are covered in the study questions posted before each exam. These questions do NOT cover the other sources of information, so be sure to take good notes as you read. When appropriate, I will refer you to this page to access the indicated web site and read the associated paper. Information from these sites will be included on the exam. Reading Topic Lecture # 1. Entomophobia 3 2. Biblical Bugs 4 3. Mythology, the Scarab Beetle, Native 5 American Myths 4. Pests on and Around You 8 5. Medically Important Insects 9 6. Pleasure Bugs: Aesthetics and Spanish Fly 10 7. Insect Products : Silk and Honey 11 8. Tarantella and Scarecrow 12 9. Cultural Entomology and Urban Legends 12 10. Insect Music 13 11. Insect Poetry 14 12. Butterfly Symbology (Lepidopteran) 17 13. Insect Monuments 17 14. Bizarre Bugs 18 15. Laws: Thailand Insect Collecting 24 16. Eating Insects: Food 25 17. Forensic Entomology 26 18. Insect World Records and Insect Flight 27 19 Pesticide Label Information (Bonus) 21 20. Bugge Faire (Group Project ‐ Photos) 1 Entomophobia and Delusory Paratosis http://medent.usyd.edu.au/fact/delpara.htm Biblical Bugs http://bible.christiansunite.com/Torreys_Topical_Textbook/ttt307.shtml Please read the following scripture references to insects. You may click the link above to view the list then click each reference to read the verse. Created by God Beetle Caterpillar (Genesis 1:24,25) (Leviticus 11:22) (Psalms 78:46; Isaiah 33:4) Unclean and abominable Earthworm Flea (Leviticus 11:23,24) (Job 25:6; Micah 7:17) (1 Samuel 24:14) Bee Gnat Grasshopper (Judges 14:8; Psalms 118:12; Isaiah (Matthew 23:24) (Leviticus 11:22; Judges 6:5; 7:18) Job 39:20) Cankerworm Locust Bald locust (Joel 1:4; Nahum 3:15,16) (Exodus 10:12,13) (Leviticus 11:22) Fly Maggot Moth (Exodus 8:22; Ecclesiastes 10:1; (Exodus 16:20) (Job 4:19; 27:18; Isaiah 50:9) Isaiah 7:18) Hornet Spider Fed by God (Deuteronomy 7:20) (Job 8:14; Proverbs 30:28) (Psalms 104:25,27; 145:9,15) Lice Clean and fit for food (Exodus 8:16; Psalms 105:31) (Leviticus 11:21,22) Palmer-worm Ant (Joel 1:4; Amos 4:9) (Proverbs 6:6; 30:25) Mythology and The Scarab Beetle 1. Arachnid This word is used for "bug" with eight legs. Spiders and scorpions are classified among this group. As the myth states, a mortal woman by the name of Arachne was famed for her intricate weavings. All the people proclaimed that Athena, the goddess of Wisdom had given her a great gift. Arachne disagreed. She boasted that her talent was hers alone, and nobody had bestowed it upon her. She also bragged that her weaving was superior to Athena's. Athena overheard her and was livid with rage. Wanting to teach the girl a lesson, Athena disguised herself as an old hag and then challenged Arachne to a contest of weaving. Arachne agreed. In a flash of light, Athena transformed back into her true form and began to weave. Hours later, they were both finished and brought their creations out for judgment. Athena had woven a picture of the gods in all their glory, sitting on their thrones drinking ambrosia. However Arachne was foolish enough to weave the gods getting drunk and looking incompetent. Both weavings were perfectly woven. Athena could not contain her rage any longer. She thought of a punishment to fit the crime. Finally, she uttered the words of a spell and Arachne turned into a spider. The punishment was truly fit for the crime because Arachne still weaves; only now her threads are a 2 hundred more times delicate than those she weaved before; yet, when people see them, they only sweep them away. The other version to this story is that, when the two finished weaving, Athena was jealous at how beautiful Arachne's weaving was. In her moment of rage, she tore apart Arachne's work of art. Arachne was so sick with grief that she went off into the woods and hung herself. When Athena saw her body, she took pity on the poor girl and turned her into a spider. 2. Global and Historical Spider Myths The spider has a world‐wide mythology; as the Great Weaver, it is an attribute of all Great Mother goddesses who spin the web of destiny. The Norse Norms are also associated with the spinning of fate. Hindu and Buddhist myth depicts the spider as weaver of the web of illusion (maya). The Old Spider holds an important place in Oceanic tradition as the Creator Goddess of the South Pacific. Her son, Young Spider, created fire. The Australian Aboriginal Great Spider is a sky hero. In Japan, Spider Women can ensnare the unwary, and the Goblin Spider is a shape‐shifter who appears in different forms to harm people. The huge spider, Tsuchi‐Gumo, caused trouble in the world until it was trapped in a cave and smoked to death (steel could not kill it). Spider is the creative feminine power in AmerIndian myth. She wove the dream of the world of phenomena and the web of fate; she was herself created to bring life to the earth, she created plants and animals, giving them all names, and lastly created humans. There is also a trickster spider who is a shape‐shifter and who brought culture to the people. Old Spider escaped the Flood and was a member of the Animal Council which helped the people "Recover the Light". The Trickster spider also appears in Africa among the Ashanti, but is also the Wise One and a divinity. In Jamaica, the Trickster spider is represented as taking on animals, humans and the gods and sometimes being able to outwit even the gods. There are many “old wives' tales” about spiders, the most widespread being that they are venomous. There are few spiders poisonous to man like the American Black Widow. Other tales were that fever could be cured by wearing a spider in a nutshell round the neck, and a common cure for jaundice was to swallow a large live house‐spider rolled up in butter. In Ireland, this was a remedy for ague. A spider on one's clothes was a sign of good luck or that money was coming and the very small spider is still called a money‐spider. 3 3. How the Fly Saved the River (Native American Fable) Many, many years ago when the world was new, there was a beautiful river. Fish in great numbers lived in this river, and its water was so pure and sweet that all the animals came there to drink. A giant moose heard about the river and he too came there to drink. But he was so big, and he drank so much, that soon the water began to sink lower and lower. The beavers were worried. The water around their lodges was disappearing. Soon their homes would be destroyed. The muskrats were worried, too. What would they do if the water vanished? How could they live? The fish were very worried. The other animals could live on land if the water dried up, but they couldn't. All the animals tried to think of a way to drive the moose from the river, but he was so big that they were too afraid to try. Even the bear was afraid of him. At last the fly said he would try to drive the moose away. All the animals laughed and jeered. How could a tiny fly frighten a giant moose? The fly said nothing, but that day, as soon as the moose appeared, he went into action. He landed on the moose's foreleg and bit sharply. The moose stamped his foot harder, and each time he stamped, the ground sank and the water rushed in to fill it up. Then the fly jumped about all over the moose, biting and biting and biting until the moose was in frenzy. He dashed madly about the banks of the river, shaking his head, stamping his feet, snorting and blowing, but he couldn't get rid of that pesky fly. At last the moose fled from the river, and didn't come back. The fly was very proud of his achievement, and boasted to the other animals, "Even the small can fight the strong if they use their brains to think." The above parable is supplied by Paula Giese, who can be contacted by e‐mail at [email protected]. Paula is the webmistress of a web site for Indian Schools in the US and Canada. Her site includes more stories from the Indian Nations. 4. Pandora's Box At first, the life of man on earth was happier than it is now, and then miseries and discontents gradually crept in. 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