Today is Reformation Day,
which until recently (so I have heard) was a national holiday in Germany, but
the government decided that the Germans were getting too many holidays, and took
it out of the calendar.  It is still, though, a civic holiday in Slovenia, since
the Reformation contributed profoundly to their cultural development, although
the Slovenes are mainly Roman Catholics.

But most of our readers will,
rather, think of it as Halloween, a time when people like to think in a playful
way about scary things.  What better then, than the timely discovery of this
Dracula
Bug?

It was discovered at the British Natural History
Museum, by two members of a volunteer insect sorting crew, in a routine
sample taken the Museum’s Wildlife Garden.  Those who want a real scare will,
though, be a little disappointed, because Bug Dracula is actually a type of
leafhopper and feeds on the sap of plants, not human blood.