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Aphonopelma species from Western Texas.
Завтра начинается этап 1 полевых работ / сумасшедший вождения и отдыха время. Я будут направлены на сбор для этой стадии поездки, hitting southern Texas just in time for the tail end of fall flying moths in the genus Schinia. Но microleps мой основной интерес, 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. На этой неделе (как будто я в ногу с этим еженедельно) Республиканская партия была отправлена мне комментатор “Извращаться“. Спасибо за вклад! Делает как намного проще, и я настоятельно рекомендую будущих материалов, представленных другими читателями. Для тех, кто новичок в своем блоге – 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. Город я работаю в случается, один из самых больших городов в мире – так что позвольте мне втирать его в кратко. Вот это потрясающий видео залива Сан-Франциско в плен к местным художником. Убедитесь в том, чтобы наблюдать в HD, это ошеломляющее. The Unseen Sea from Simon Christen на Vimeo. я наткнулся this interesting device and had an instant gut reaction.. “Конечно глупо вода лампочка не отталкивают мух, это афера!”… глубокий вдох… ОК это ужасно скептицизм. На самом деле, это цинично и это именно то, что скептики не хочу быть называется. Это также то, что происходит слишком легко – 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. На моем ежедневных поездок назад в Беркли, Я заметил это (извинения за Cruddy изображения). На самом деле, Я видел несколько из них всплывают в окрестностях Сан-Франциско, и это заставляет меня хотеть рвать на себе волосы каждый раз. Для тех, кто новичок в своем блоге, это восходит к моему Гений прессы X. Я также не единственный, кто имеет заметил это Таксономия рекламного щита мексиканской бабочки не удалась. Ничего себе это было несколько недель с моего последнего поста, и я немного смущен того отпустить ее до тех пор,. Что я был до? Не в целом не. Нет впечатляющие коллекционирование поездки, нет новых видов или открытия. На самом деле я сидел на микроскопом рассекает гениталии или databasing паразитные мух. 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. В конце концов, 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. Еще не все, что трудно GOP вызов, здесь от Шотландский сайт ТВ. Что не так с приведенной ниже истории? 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! (посмотреть buggirl) 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, Тамас 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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