The clouds broke this afternoon in San Francisco and the sun began to shine. The upcoming warm weather induced an all too familiar feeling, one that I should be out collecting insects and not sitting indoors! While I have already been to a handful of places this spring, Mul on pikk hooaeg kogumise ees. Ootan ma ei saa aidata, kuid mõelda viimase kahe spectacular aastat west on mulle andnud. Et illustreerida oma sõltuvusest, Siin on seletus minu Google Earth GPS punktid.
Iga lipu esindab eraldi kogumise üritus (jätta kollane kontakte), vahel sügisel 2007 ja talvel 2009. Ma ei pidanud arvet miili jaoks mõeldud kogudes väljasõidud (ehk vältida elektrilöögi), kuid see peab olema läheneb 30,000. Minu Honda Accord ei pruugi olla tüüpiline valdkonnas sõiduk, kuid see muudab oluliselt distantsi odavam. Muidugi kaks flat rehvid ja pragunenud esiklaas ei aita. Võid kergesti öelda, et elan Lõuna-California et hiiglane kämp lipud. Enamik neist on keskendunud Santa Barbara maakonna, which yielded two new species and dozens of county records. Arizona comes second with two 10 day trips with each night in a different location. I then broke free of the southwest last summer and drove a long loop through the midwest over the course of two and a half weeks. I pulled in around 4,000 lepidoptera and have just started putting the finishing touches on the last of the specimens. Nii kaugel, only one new species – a sole specimen of a small Acrolophidae from western Texas (determined by Peter Jump who is writing the MONA fascicle on the group). Plenty left to still ID.
On the board for this year: A trip to Leavenworth, Washington for the 2010 Lepidopteroloogia’ Society meeting. The two week collecting trip will shoot north to Washington then loop east through Idaho, Utah and Nevada on the way home. But as always, Arizona ja Mehhiko on majakat. Ja nüüd, et ma elan Berkeley mul sattuda Sierra paar korda sel aastal!
Cool kaart – Kuidas sa teha?
Mul kõva kaart seinal minu uuringus punane glasshead pin igal kogumise paikkonnas Olen külastanud alates 1982 (jah, Ma olen nii vana!). Kahtlemata lääne ja Mehhiko on, kus see on, kuid viimastel aastatel olen saanud päris armunud Great Plains – Kogu see koht näib olevat olnud mingi ebaõiglaselt tähelepanuta jätta.
Ma saan ühendada oma GPS Google Earth, mis võimaldab mul alla laadida asukohapunktid ja rajad. Lõpptoote on juhuslikud, aga see on tõesti imeline on kõik oma kogumise punktid kaardistatud automaatselt! I can also go backwards from my database, with a click of a button it creates a google earth map of the distribution of my specimens.
Well heck – sounds like I need to get a better GPS, since mine has no download capabilities.
BTW, I’m really liking your blog. There are lots of insect bloggers out there, but not that many who really know what they’re talking about. (And I just noticed the linkback – thanks.)
I suppose you could achieve the same goal by manually entering your waypoints and placing a pin on google earth. A bit slower though when you collect as much as me (I assume you do!).
Täname kommentaare, I’m really enjoying this medium, wish I had started a while ago! I agree, there are very few good entomology blogs, but yours is one of the best.
You should make a trip to central NY…our woods are packed with moths. In fact, the porch light has been flooded with moths, I should take some pics and make you ID them 😉
Im going to have to steal (on, I mean imitate) your photography set up for the lab. I had to take some photos of teeny-tiny hymenopteran parasitoids for a Canadian collaborator last week and the pics turned out hideous 🙁
I ended up just sending him the specimens, which then involved a whole new set of headaches with customs.