Things have been quiet here for quite a while – mostly because I’ve been inundated with work (always a good thing). But I have also recently joined the party eight years late to the Twitter train. For daily images of cool insects please follow me over there @skepticalmoth. Of course some stories require . . . → Read More: Follow me on Twitter
 Comments are closed  Entomology, Science News  Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Entomology, Lepidoptera, Media, Microlepidoptera, Moths, Photography, Skepticism, Twitter Have you seen the beautiful photos taken by Sam Droege for the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab? Ever wondered how he got those beautiful shots? Tomorrow, September 26th at 1pm eastern time, Sam will be doing a LIVE tutorial on YouTube on how to take these photos and how to do it on . . . → Read More: Specimen Imaging Demonstration – Live! Share this! Comments are closed Entomology, Science News Cameras, Entomology, Museums, Photography, Tutorial, USGS I’m excited to be participating this year as an instructor for the Lepidoptera Course at the Southwestern Research Station near Portal, Arizona. I’ll be one of eight other instructors who will provide a hands on and intense 9-day long course on the collection, preservation and identification of Lepidoptera. I really can’t imagine a better way . . . → Read More: LepCourse 2013 – learn about moths and butterflies! Share this! 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Entomology, Science News American Museum of Natural History, Arizona, Collecting, Entomology, LepCourse, Lepidoptera, Moths, Portal, Southwest Research Station The time is fast approaching for this years National Moth Week, July 20-28 2013! The first ever Moth Week last year was a huge success with over 300 events from 49 US States and 30 countries! Help make this year even bigger – if you’re interested in moths at all you should find a local . . . → Read More: National Moth Week 2013! Share this! One comment - (Comments are closed) Entomology, Science News Citizen Science, Colorado, Denver, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Entomology, Lepidoptera, Moths, National Moth Week You may have already heard the shocking news regarding the impending changes at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. In short, the museum is in financial crisis and massive changes are going to be implemented by the new president, Richard Lariviere. It’s likely that up to half of the research staff . . . → Read More: Protect Research at the Field Museum of Natural History Share this! Comments are closed Miscellaneous, Science News change.org, Chicago, Field Museum, Field Museum of Natural History, Museums, Petition, Research The first annual National Moth Week will be this summer, July 23-29, 2012! This is the first event of its kind in the US (it has been popular in the UK for quite some time) and is an attempt to encourage people to head outside and explore their often overlooked moth fauna. The US has . . . → Read More: National Moth Week 2012 Share this! Comments are closed Entomology, Science News Citizen Science, Collecting, Conservation, Entomology, Lepidoptera, Microlepidoptera, Moths, National Moth Week, Photography Fellow network blogger David Shiffman is in the final laps of a $10,000 scholarship challenge. The money will not only support David’s blogging at Southern Fried Science, but shark conservation research (including a contest to name the shark he will tag with the funds). Take a moment and vote for him, once every 24 hours! . . . → Read More: Vote for Shark Conservation! Share this! 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Miscellaneous, Science News Conservation, Contest, Marine Biology, Scholarship, Sharks, Southern Fried Science A few months ago a magnificent key to the Lepidoptera of Canada (all of them) was published by Jason Dombroskie – a PhD student from the U. of Alberta. The program is available for windows users only so I haven’t had a good chance to explore it yet – but the PDF is available online . . . → Read More: Key to the Lepidoptera of Canada Share this! One comment - (Comments are closed) Entomology, Science News Butterflies, Canada, Entomology, Identification, Key, Lepidoptera, Moths Today marks a sad day in Physics history, the Tevatron accelerator at Fermi Lab in Batavia Illinois was powered down for the last time. Once the second most powerful accelerator in the world (and most powerful in the USA), the new LHC has made this beautiful machine obsolete. I can only assume the teams of . . . → Read More: The end of an era Share this! Comments are closed Science News accelerator, Fermi Lab, Illinois, LHC, Physics, Science, Skepticism The early Cambrian seas (542-488 million years ago) had a plethora of strange and bizarre creatures almost unimaginable to even the best sci-fi dreamer. As possibly one of the precursors to the Arthropoda (also Onychophora and Tardigrada), the lobopodian lineages represent a strange group of “worms with legs” that once roamed the . . . → Read More: A strange armored lobopodian from the Cambrian Share this! 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Miscellaneous, Science News Arthropoda, Evolution, Fossil, New Species, Paleontology |
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