Egun bat izango da agian berandu, baina oraindik merezi saiatu. Boo!
Aphonopelma species from Western Texas.
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Bihar hasiko da etapa 1 landa-lana / ero gidatzeko eta oporrak denbora. Bidaia-etapa honetarako biltzeko on egingo dut zentratu egingo, hitting southern Texas just in time for the tail end of fall flying moths in the genus Schinia. Baina microleps nire interes nagusia dira, and I’m sure I’ll come back with hundreds of stunning specimens. I’ll be taking as many photos as I can, and I hope to post an update as I hit Chicago just in time for Halloween. Of course if I do see something too incredible, I’ll have to try and post from my cell right away. As for stage II, it will be a visit with my family and friends back in Chicago, and stage III will be a quick drive back to San Francisco across I-80 with fingers crossed to avoid the snow. If anyone is en-route and wants to join me in the field, send me an e-mail! Stay tuned and wish me luck. Share honetan! Iruzkin bat - (Iruzkinak itxita daude)  Entomología  Biltzen, Entomología, Bilketa-arriskuak, Sitsak, Road Trip, Texas Aste honetan (balitz bezala gorde dut astero honekin) GOP niri bidali zen commenter arabera “Iraultzen“. Eskerrik asko ekarpena egiteko! Osoan asko errazagoa bezala egiten, eta biziki beste irakurle etorkizuneko bidalketak animatzen dut. Horiek nire blog berrientzat – the Genius of the Press series is a contest to see who can identify the blatant errors of the press. So what’s wrong with the article below? From the pages of Science News:
We get this gem.
Share honetan! 4 iruzkinak - (Iruzkinak itxita daude) Entomología Lehiaketa, Entomología, Gazteaukera, Komunikabideak Hirian lan egiten dut gertatzen munduko hiri handienetako bat izan nahi du – beraz, utzi igurtzi zidan labur batean. Hemen San Francisco Bay bideo harrigarri bat tokiko artista batek harrapatu da. Ziurtatu HD ikusi, harrigarria da. The Unseen Sea tik Simon Christen on Vimeo. Share honetan!
I came across this interesting device and had an instant gut reaction.. “Jakina ergelak ur bonbilla bat ez uxatzeko euli, hau iruzur bat da!”… arnasa sakon… Ados duten eszeptizismoa terrible da. Benetan, zinikoa da eta zer skeptics deitzen ari gorroto da. Gainera, askoz ere errazago gertatzen den zerbait – I’m pretty convinced that ghosts don’t exist, there has been no compelling evidence, ever. But every time I hear a story of a haunting it is far too tempting to just think of a few plausible explanations and dismiss the case without a closer look. And when we do this we give fodder to the credulous investigator who will throw it back in our faces faster than a spirit-orb zipping across a room. Discovering a real ghost for the first time ever is pretty nearly impossible; yet the answer isn’t always the most obvious hypothesis and you can stumble upon a zebra every once in a while. The point is that investigation is the only real way to remain skeptical. Continue reading Call me skeptical… Share honetan! 8 iruzkinak - (Iruzkinak itxita daude) Entomología, eszeptizismoa Bad Science, Entomología, Logikoa Fallacies, Izurri, Iruzurrak eta iruzurraren, eszeptizismoa Nire eguneroko Absys Berkeleyko atzera, Ikusi dut honen (the cruddy irudi apologies). Benetan, Ikusi dut horien eskukada bat irekiko San Francisco inguruan eta nire ilea alderik aldi bakoitzean nahi me egiten du. Horiek nire blog berria nor dira egiteko, this goes back to my Prentsa Jeinua X. I’m also not the only one to have noticed this mexican butterfly billboard taxonomy fail.
Share honetan! 7 iruzkinak - (Iruzkinak itxita daude) Entomología Bad Science, Tximeletak, Entomología, Mimicry, Taxonomia Fail Wow Da aste gutxi izan da nire azken post geroztik, eta pixka bat lotsatzen ondoren utzi hain luze joan naiz. Zer dut ibili den? Ez osotasunean ez. No ikusgarria biltzeko bidaiak, no espezie edo aurkikuntza berriak. Benetan izan dut mikroskopio baten genitalian dissecting eserita edo parasito euli guneko datu baseak dut. I’ll have to do a followup post to delve into those a bit more… But for now, here is a picture form last August. I was standing on an open stretch of Chihuahuan desert right outside of Douglas Arizona; a whopping one mile from the Mexican border. I arrived that evening with my collecting colleague, microlepidopterist Peter Jump, and we had just set up camp as the roll of thunder grew close. Aside from the extinct cinder-cones surrounding us and an occasional illegal immigrant, we were the only (and highest) thing around for miles. But the lightening was too hard to resist, I need a picture! But I didn’t have a cable release, nor a tripod, or even a good camera. So what to do… I chose the genius option of standing outside for 40 minutes with my Canon point-and-shoot. I missed 99% of every shot I took, while with every passing minute the lightening grew closer. Azkenik, I stumbled upon this decent image. The storm ended up being brief, we huddle in the car (that you can just make out in the picture) while the lightening approached and it drizzled on us for an hour then moved on. Collecting that night was impressive. There were so many moths in the trap that everything had gotten beaten to bits. I managed to rescue a handful of good specimens, but lesson learned for next time.
Share honetan!Another not all that difficult GOP challenge, found here from the Scottish TV website. What’s wrong with the story below?
Share honetan! 6 iruzkinak - (Iruzkinak itxita daude) Entomología Lehiaketa, Entomología, Lepidoptera, Komunikabideak, Sitsak A short clip from the brilliant show, Quite Interesting. The start of the discussion is in regards to cochineal bugs – although they refer to them as beetles! (ikusi buggirl) Share honetan! 2 iruzkinak - (Iruzkinak itxita daude) Entomología Entomología, Gazteaukera, Lepidoptera, Komunikabideak A weekend without moths can lead a lepidopterist to do crazy things. Crazy enough to photograph a spider. Over the weekend I was accompanied to the eastern Sierra by fellow insect blogger, coworker and arachnologist, Tamas Szuts. I was on the quest for more specimens of a new Hepialidae of which you may be familiar with from an earlier post. I heard reports from others that at elevations of 11,000’ there was still a significant snowpack even by the end of July. I figured the moth may be flying late this year, if at all. I was hoping to catch the end of summer and the moth both in perfect synchronization. Such was not my luck. I awoke on Saturday morning, sat upright, and brushed the frost off of my sleeping bag while desperately willing myself to brave the morning chill. Temps must have been pushing 25 degrees, a sign that autumn had return to the mountains. Two traps, a black light sheet and running around at dusk yielded zero Hepialidae and only ten moths in total (four species). And so I was encouraged by Tamas to actually photograph a non-lep, something that I should do more often. He had joined me eager to not only see the Sierra for the first time, but to find the beautiful Salticidae – Habronattus americanus. This little jumper can be found in the western states in rocky areas above 7,000′. After an hour or two of searching, Tamas finally captured a stunning pair. I must agree that this is a beautiful little spider. Visit his blog (in Hungarian) to see some of his stunning images as well.
Continue reading A Sierran Spider Share honetan! 5 iruzkinak - (Iruzkinak itxita daude) Entomología Biltzen, Entomología, Lepidoptera, Sitsak, Armiarmak |
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