Over the next week and a half I’ll be driving up to Washington state for the annual Lepidopterists’ Society meeting. It is located in the tourist-trap town of Leavenworth, which is a “Bavarian themed” diorama of postcard and clog shops. While I can never quite understand the appeal of themed towns, it is something . . . → ادامه مطلب: On the road again
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And now for the even more infrequently reoccurring series, vox populi! For those without scarring high school memories of latin class (through no fault of my teacher) I’ll bring you up to speed – the title roughly translates to “voice of the people”. Here is another old e-mail that I’ve been saving. It is a . . . → ادامه مطلب: صدای مردم, volume II به اشتراک گذاشتن این!Welcome to volume eight of the inconsistently reoccurring series, نابغه مطبوعات. I came across this article recently regarding an endemic Puerto Rican butterfly. Who can tell me exactly why this report is misleading? It may be a little trickier than the standard GOP (I suggest discarding any previously associated acronyms with those letters). . . . → ادامه مطلب: Genius of the Press VIII به اشتراک گذاشتن این!
به پروانه و من خوش آمدید #12, و برای اولین بار از کارناوال وبلاگ من. با وجود وبلاگ نویسی برای چند ماه من هنوز به نگاهی به پشت و منعکس کننده در تاریخ دقیقا چه من با پولکبالان در وهله اول شیفته شد. به خاطر سپردن یک زمان و یا مکانی که این اتفاق افتاده است غیر ممکن است, و مانند . . . → ادامه مطلب: پروانه و من #12 به اشتراک گذاشتن این!This moth is just about as rare as its paranormal namesake (except that it’s real) – it’s a Gazoryctra sp. in the family Hepialidae. They represent a basal lineage of the Lepidoptera and are commonly known as ghost moths or swift moths. Ghost – because males of some species are known to fly in . . . → ادامه مطلب: زیست شناسی یک روح به اشتراک گذاشتن این!Who can see what’s wrong with this article? به اشتراک گذاشتن این!This recent article in the American Naturalist has taken a second look at some of the famously inflated species estimates, some going high as 100 million (Erwin, 1988). Estimates conducted by the authors indicate that projections above 30 million have probabilities of <0.00001. Their estimated range is more likely to be between 2.5 و . . . → ادامه مطلب: برآورد تنوع گونه های جهانی به اشتراک گذاشتن این!Just a few images of common California leps, taken along the coast range near Santa Cruz a few weeks ago. Starting to work my way through some photo backlog…
Euphydryas chalcedona
Plebejus acmon
Plebejus acmon
. . . → ادامه مطلب: می پروانه ها (و یک پروانه) به اشتراک گذاشتن این!For the rarely reoccurring quiz series, here is a new image. Who is this moth? به اشتراک گذاشتن این!For those Californians reading, especially those in the south, keep an eye out for this beautiful little spider, Latrodectus geometricus – the brown widow. Arachnologists at UC Riverside are monitoring the spread of this invasive species. Ironically it turns out to not be as dangerous as our native black widow. Nonetheless, it is not . . . → ادامه مطلب: Have you seen me? به اشتراک گذاشتن این! |
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