V priebehu budúceho týždňa a pol budem riadiť až do štátu Washington na ročné lepidopterologů’ Spoločnosť stretnutie. Nachádza sa v turistickej pasci mesta Leavenworth, čo je “Bavorskej themed” Diorama pohľadnice a zanesenie obchodov. Aj keď som nikdy úplne pochopiť príťažlivosť tematických miest, to je niečo, čo . . . → Čítajte viac: Na ceste znova
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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 . . . → Čítajte viac: Vox Populi, volume II Zdieľať tento!Welcome to volume eight of the inconsistently reoccurring series, Genius z tlače. 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). . . . → Čítajte viac: Genius of the Press VIII Zdieľať tento! 5 komentáre - (komentáre sú uzavreté)  Entomológia  Motýle, Zachovanie, Súťaž, Entomológia, Lepidoptera, Media
Welcome to The Moth and Me #12, and my first blog carnival. Despite blogging for a few months I have yet to take a look back and reflect on exactly how I became enamored with lepidoptera in the first place. Remembering a time or location where this happened is impossible, and like . . . → Čítajte viac: Moth and Me #12 Zdieľať tento! 10 komentáre - (komentáre sú uzavreté) Entomológia Carnival, Entomológia, Lepidoptera, Mory, Moth and Me 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 . . . → Čítajte viac: Biology of a Ghost Zdieľať tento! 6 komentáre - (komentáre sú uzavreté) Entomológia Správanie, Entomológia, Lepidoptera, Mory, Nové druhy Who can see what’s wrong with this article? Zdieľať tento!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 a . . . → Čítajte viac: Estimates of Global Species Diversity Zdieľať tento!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 Azmon
Plebejus Azmon
. . . → Čítajte viac: May Butterflies (and a moth) Zdieľať tento!Pre zriedka znovu objavuje kvíz séria, Tu je nový obrázok. Kto je to mora? Zdieľať tento!Pre tých Kalifornčania čítanie, najmä tých, na juhu, dávať pozor na tohto krásneho malého pavúka, Latrodectus geometricus – hnedá vdova. Arachnologů na UC Riverside sú sledovanie šírenia tejto inváznych druhov. Je iróniou, že sa ukáže, že nie je tak nebezpečné ako naše rodné čierna vdova. Avšak, nie je . . . → Čítajte viac: Už ste ma vidieť? Zdieľať tento! |
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