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Aphonopelma species from Western Texas.
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Denmen kòmanse etap 1 nan travay jaden / kondwi fou ak vakans tan. Mwen pral konsantre sou kolekte pou etap sa a nan vwayaj la, hitting southern Texas just in time for the tail end of fall flying moths in the genus Schinia. Men, microleps yo se enterè prensipal mwen an, 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. Pataje sa a! Yon kòmantè - (Kòmantè yo fèmen)  Antomoloji  Kolekte, Antomoloji, Danje ki gen nan nan Kolekte, Papiyon, Road Sòti a, Texas Semèn sa a (tankou si m 'kenbe moute ak sa a chak semèn) GOP yo te voye fè m 'pa Commenter “Subvèrse“. Mèsi pou kontribisyon an! Fè tankou anpil antye pi fasil, ak mwen ankouraje soumèt lavni ki soti nan lòt lektè. Pou moun ki nouvo nan blog mwen an – 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.
Pataje sa a!Lavil la m ap travay nan k ap pase yo youn nan lavil yo pi gran nan mond lan – Se konsa, kite m 'fwote li nan yon ti tan. Isit la se yon videyo sansasyonèl nan San Francisco Bay la te kaptire pa yon atis lokal. Asire w ke w gade nan HD, li nan sansasyonèl. The Unseen Sea from Simon Christen on Vimeo. Pataje sa a!
I came across this interesting device and had an instant gut reaction.. “Natirèlman yon anpoul dlo estipid pa repouse mouch, sa a se yon tronpe!”… gwo souf… OK se sa ki terib dout. Aktyèlman, li nan sinik epi li jis sa septik rayi yo te rele. Li la tou yon bagay ki k ap pase anpil twò fasil – 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… Pataje sa a! 8 kòmantè - (Kòmantè yo fèmen) Antomoloji, Dout Move Syans, Antomoloji, Iluzyon ki lojik, Vèmin, Magouy ak Fwòd, Dout Sou vwayaje chak jou m 'tounen nan Berkeley, Mwen te takte sa a (ekskiz pou imaj la cruddy). Aktyèlman, Mwen te wè yon ti ponyen nan sa yo pòp moute nan San Francisco ak li fè m 'vle chire tout cheve nan tèt m' chak fwa. Pou moun ki se nouvo nan blog mwen an, this goes back to my Genius of the Press X. I’m also not the only one to have noticed this mexican butterfly billboard taxonomy fail.
Pataje sa a! 7 kòmantè - (Kòmantè yo fèmen) Antomoloji Move Syans, Papiyon, Antomoloji, Imitation, Classification Echèk Wow li te gen yon kèk semèn depi pòs dènye mwen, ak mwen se yon ti jan jennen li te gen kite l 'ale pou lontan. Kisa m 'te moute nan? Se pa yon antye pa. Pa gen enpresyonan kolekte vwayaj, pa gen okenn nouvo espès oswa dekouvèt. Aktyèlman mwen te chita nan yon mikwoskòp diseke Genito oswa databasing mouch parazit. 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. finalman, 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.
Pataje sa a!Yon lòt pa tout sa ki difisil defi GOP, jwenn isit la soti nan Sit entènèt Scottish TV. Ki sa ki nan mal ak istwa ki anba a?
Pataje sa a!Yon clip kout soti nan montre nan briyan, Byen enteresan. Kòmanse nan diskisyon an se nan konsidere pinèz kochin – byenke yo refere yo kòm skarabe! (gade buggirl) Pataje sa a!Yon fen semèn san papiyon ka mennen yon lepidopterist fè bagay sa yo fou. Fou ase yo foto yon Spider. Nan fen semèn nan mwen te akonpaye nan lès Sierra a pa parèy ensèk Blogger, kòlèg travay ak 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.
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