Kuchukua, wenye uti wa mgongo!

Nimekuwa inayojulikana kwa wakati kwamba mende na inverts nyingine mara kwa mara na wenye uti wa mgongo kwenye orodha yao, lakini mimi si kweli kujua jinsi kubwa ya wanyama wangeweza kuwaangamiza! Hata wakati vunjajungu isiyo ya kawaida grabs hummingbird ukubwa tofauti si kama kikubwa kama ni umeonyesha chini. Hii video ya kuvutia alikuwa . . . → Soma Zaidi: Kuchukua, wenye uti wa mgongo!

Jumatatu nondo

Whoops, it’s almost Tuesday! Above is Schinia ligeae (Noctuidae) resting on its host plant Xylorhiza tortifolia, the Mojave Aster. I photographed this about three weeks ago outside the town of Big Pine, California. The asters were thick in the valleys below the snow capped Sierra, and the moths were abundant. . . . → Soma Zaidi: Jumatatu nondo

Wana Arachnologists wametua

sawa, not an insect

 

For the next three weeks my colleagues from the Arachnology lab at the California Academy of Sciences are in the Philippines! (no, not jealous at all…) The trip is part of the CAS Hearst expedition, a massive effort spanning all of our research departments to survey . . . → Soma Zaidi: Wana Arachnologists wametua

Fikra wa Vyombo vya Habari XVIII

 

Nani anaweza kuniambia nini kibaya chini? Si tu ni dhahiri tatizo picha, but the author of the article takes some logical leaps to support his premise. Who can tell me what his logical fallacies are? I won’t link to the entire article quite yet because a well known Lepidopterist has already . . . → Soma Zaidi: Fikra wa Vyombo vya Habari XVIII

Mecoptera ya Amerika Kaskazini

Mzizi wa Merope

New to the web this week is an excellent resource on the Mecoptera of North America. Dr. Norm Penny ameweka pamoja mwongozo ulioonyeshwa kwa spishi zote za Amerika Kaskazini na picha za tabia na sehemu za siri.. Ingawa sio tofauti sana, the Mecoptera prove to be an enigmatic and fascinating . . . → Soma Zaidi: Mecoptera ya Amerika Kaskazini

Mission Blue Butterfly

 

Kiume – Marin headlands

Kama wanyama wengine wengi mijini, Mission Blue Butterfly (Plebejus icarioides missionensis) ni moja kwamba ni vikubwa hatarisha. Hii ndogo ya maisha ya bluu katika vipande vidogo ya makazi sambamba milioni mbalimbali ya maendeleo ya dola na kuzunguka San Francisco Bay. Karne moja iliyopita kipepeo huyu . . . → Soma Zaidi: Mission Blue Butterfly

Jumapili Moth

 

Kila mtu anafahamu kichwa cha hawkmoth maarufu cha kifo, lakini nadhani ni aibu tumeeneza tabia mbaya kama hii. Hapo juu ni Neotropical Arctiinae mwenye furaha zaidi kutoka French Guiana ambaye anaonekana kama anacheza sura ya mcheshi.. Cha kusikitisha ni kwamba hii sio picha yangu, lakini . . . → Soma Zaidi: Jumapili Moth

Blue Oak Ranch Reserve

Wiki chache zilizopita nilialikwa kujiunga Berkeley entomolojia darasa katika shamba kwa mwishoni mwa wiki. Our destination was the Blue Oak Ranch Reserve; moja ya hifadhi mpya zaidi na Chuo Kikuu cha California mfumo iko nje ya San Jose juu ya Mlima Hamilton (ramani hapo chini). It was a . . . → Soma Zaidi: Blue Oak Ranch Reserve

Siri Revelaed

sawa – pole chache kwa kutokuwa na picha kamili *bado* za mabuu husika (Nitafanya katika siku chache!). Mwishoni mwa juma nilikuwa nje na kikundi cha wanafunzi wa Berkeley kwenye Mlima Hamilton na mgombea wa PhD Meghan Culpepper alikusanya aina chache za Scaphinotus na mabuu.! Kwa hivyo sampuli . . . → Soma Zaidi: Siri Revelaed

Jumatatu siri

 

Alimkuta guy hii wakati nje katika uwanja siku nyingine, nini kinaendelea hapa? Pointi tuzo kwa Order / Family / Mahesabu – lakini hata wataalam katika kundi hili hawezi kufikiri aina bado kabisa.

 

(kila mtu katika uwanja nami lazima kushikilia . . . → Soma Zaidi: Jumatatu siri