This one is just too easy. The billboard is on I-35 south of Burleson, Texas.
I don’t know the true provenance of this image, but it came my way from Omar Bocanegra via Mike Quinn on the Texas Lepidoptera list-serv.
 6 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket)  Entomologi  Sommerfugle, Indsamling, Humor, Lepidoptera, Medier Jeg faldt over (ikke på stumbleupon) these colored SEM images on the Telegraph webpage today. Jeg elsker især dette billede af en Calliphoridae-larve (Protophormia sp.) der virker mere ud af en C-rated science fiction-film end naturen. It reminds me of both a freakish Star Wars character and a Muppet at the same . . . → Læs mere: Muppet Monsters Del dette!Here is a hill-topping male Papilio zeliacon, eller anis svalehale. Denne sommerfugl er udbredt i de vestlige Stillehavsstater og er sandsynligvis meget mere almindelig, end den engang var. Efter indførelsen af fennikel (Daucus carota), og efterfølgende flugt fra havebrug, anis svalehale tog fat som en almindelig californisk sommerfugl. Perhaps before this . . . → Læs mere: Sommerfugleporno Del dette! 5 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket) Entomologi Sommerfugle, Bevarelse, Entomologi, Uddøde arter, Lepidoptera Over on Myrmecos Alex Wild just brought to my attention a rather personal attack from a pair of republican senators (Tom Coburn, R-Okla., og John McCain, R-Ariz). Endnu en gang begyndte jeg at kommentere, men i betragtning af hvor tæt på hjemmet dette rammer, Jeg mærkede en længerevarende diatribe nærme sig… Tilsyneladende, my job is a giant waste . . . → Læs mere: Ja, Republikanerne skal også hader mig. Del dette! Kommentarer er lukket Entomologi, Skepsis Entomologi, Logiske fejlslutninger, Medier, Pseudovidenskab, Republikanske, Skepsis Fresh off the desk of the Nature News is a feature pondering a world without mosquitos (or -toes). How is this news? Perhaps there is some new vector control we all need to hear about! Godt, check out the article from the latest edition of Nature titled “A World Without Mosquitoes“. I originally came . . . → Læs mere: Meningsløst nyheder, denne gang fra natur Del dette! 4 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket) Entomologi, Skepsis Entomologi, Sundhed, Malaria, Medier, Mosquitos, Skepsis Okay, måske ikke. But I did get a little jealous when I came across this article where I discovered a local San Francisco artist who is charging $60 en pop til “insekt sprede klasser”. Jeg spekulerer på, hvor mange virkelig at vise op til den månedlige klasse? Dette blot i, Chris Grinter is offering an insect spreading . . . → Læs mere: Jeg skal starte opladningen Del dette!Just about time for another volume of Genius of the Press. Who will be first to spot the error here? Indrømmet, the information section of the california flat rate moving website is not exactly a source of top notch journalism… Del dette!Here are a few more images from my recent northern road trip, this time from western Idaho. Right outside the town of New Meadows were fields of flowers thick with life. It was some of the best day collecting I’ve done in years, and fellow road tripper Peter Jump and I discovered this . . . → Læs mere: This time, with a moth Del dette!In eastern Lassen county, on the vast high juniper hills of the California-Nevada border, there are herds of “wild” horses, sheep and cattle. Par for the course, the only flowering plant around was horehound (Marrubium vulgare). Despite the non-native flora and (semi)mega-fauna, the insects were still at home. Being the only nectar source, the small . . . → Læs mere: Den eneste bar i byen Del dette!A few months ago I was out collecting in western Arizona and failed to follow through with any images or updates on that trip. Godt, it was a success and well worth the miles to get there! I was searching for a Crambid moth in the mountains of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge (special thanks . . . → Læs mere: Vestlige Arizona Del dette! |
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