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For those who saw the FOX interview with MSU entomologist Dr. Cognato (OK, for those who didn’t, here it is), you will be interested to hear his side of the story. [youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7f52y4Nq4E&feature=player_embedded] Take the time to register (Prepáč, it’s annoying but I couldn’t find it anywhere else) and read a response to the interview by . . . → Čítajte viac: A teraz viete, zvyšok príbehu Zdieľať tento!I came across the full-text PDF of the amphibious moth article and extracted the tree showing the radiation of this species group and probable evolution of the amphibious traits. Interesting to note the case shape, and each moth is endemic to its own volcano in the Hawaiian archipelago. This is a Bayesian analysis of . . . → Čítajte viac: Aquamoth časť 2 Zdieľať tento!For all those who abstained from voting (I want to assume some readers must have known the identity of our mystery caterpillar, but were too lazy to comment), here is the answer (after the break).
. . . → Čítajte viac: Answer to last week’s Genius of the Press Zdieľať tento!Another amazing animal from Hawaii – a completely amphibious caterpillar (published in the March 22 PNAS). While there are a few aquatic Lepidoptera, all of them have gills that keep them restricted to the water (mind you, we are talking only about the larval stage). If their stream dries up, so does the caterpillar. . . . → Čítajte viac: Aquamoth! Zdieľať tento!Jar prišlo do severnej Kalifornie a mory sú na krídle. Vzal som rýchly výlet až do podhoria Sierra cez víkend a navýšili strmých svahoch nad riekou americké. Hore je zobrazený Xanthothrix ranunculi f. albipuncta (Noctuidae: Stiriinae). Stáva sa to preto, že leží na krásnej california . . . → Čítajte viac: Kalifornská jar Zdieľať tento!Ďalší diel môjho obľúbeného seriálu, genialita tlače. This article comes from ABC news, kto dokáže identifikovať túto húsenicu? It is decidedly NOT a gypsy moth. Fellow entomology blogger Myrmecos had a similar story last week. Zdieľať tento!(fotografický kredit) The monarchs have started their spring migration north and you might even see one soon (nie je to vzrušujúce, ak žijete na FL alebo HI, kde sú celoroční obyvatelia, alebo v CA, kde sú samostatné prezimovacie miesta). Správy z ich zimných miest v Mexiku sú však tristné; with possibly the lowest . . . → Čítajte viac: Preč s ich hlavami! Zdieľať tento! 2 komentáre - (komentáre sú uzavreté)  Entomológia  Barcoding, Motýle, Zachovanie, DNA, Entomológia, Lepidoptera, Monarch Published in the Santa Barbara News Press, Winter 2009. Who can tell me what’s wrong with these captions? Page scan credit: Stuart Wilson. Zdieľať tento!Not the typical butterfly – but this is the protein folding structure from a South American hemorrhagic fever – the Machupo virus. The article was found on Science Daily. A striking resemblance to a butterfly, maybe even a Hesperiidae (photo from Butterflies of America). . . . → Čítajte viac: Butterfly v týždni Zdieľať tento!Because I would have been subjected to this. Talk about animal cruelty! OK, just kidding, but this story is a bit ridiculous. The article states that the scientists had used the voice of Limbaugh because it was “readily available”, not because they hated him. Well that turns out not to be true, they chose Rush . . . → Čítajte viac: Thankfully, I’m not a beetle Zdieľať tento! |
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