Might be a day late, but still worth a try. Boo!
Aphonopelma species from Western Texas.
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Jutri se začne faza 1 za delo na terenu / nori vožnji in času dopusta. Se bom osredotočila na zbiranje na tej stopnji potovanja, hitting southern Texas just in time for the tail end of fall flying moths in the genus Schinia. Ampak microleps so moj primarni interes, 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. Skupna raba tega! En komentar - (Komentarji so zaprti)  Entomologija  Zbiranje, Entomologija, Nevarnosti Zbiranje, Molji, Road Trip, Texas Ta teden (kot da bi dohajala tedensko) GOP je bilo, da mi je poslala commenter “Uničeni“. Zahvaljujemo se vam za prispevek! Naredi kot celota veliko lažje, in sem močno spodbujala prihodnja stališča iz druge bralce. Za tiste nove za moj blog – 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.
Skupna raba tega!Mesto Delam zgodi, da je eden izmed največjih mest na svetu – zato naj ga vtrite na kratko. Tukaj je omamljanje video v San Francisco Bay ujeli lokalnega umetnika. Poskrbite, da gledajo v visoki ločljivosti, to je omamljanje. Unseen morje od Simon Christen na Vimeo. Skupna raba tega!
Sem prišel čez to zanimivo napravo in je takojšen črevesja reakcijo.. “Seveda neumen voda žarnica ne odvrača muhe, To je prevara!”… Globok vdih… OK, to je grozno skepticizem. Dejansko, to je cinična in to je samo tisto, kar skeptiki sovražim, če se imenuje. To je tudi nekaj, kar se dogaja preveč enostavno – Sem precej prepričan, da duhovi ne obstajajo, ni bilo prepričljivih dokazov, kdaj. Toda vsakič, ko slišim zgodbo preganja je preveč mamljiva, da samo pomislim na nekaj možnih razlag in zavrže primer brez podrobnejši pogled. In ko smo to naredili damo krmo na lahkoverna raziskovalca, ki ga bo vrgel nazaj v naše obraze hitreje kot duhovnim obkrožiti patentna zadrga čez sobo. Odkrivanje pravega duha za prvič je zal skoraj nemogoče; vendar odgovor ni vedno najbolj očitna hipotezo in lahko posrnuti zebra vsake toliko časa. Bistvo je, da je preiskava edini pravi način, da ostajajo skeptični. Continue reading Call me skeptical… Skupna raba tega! 8 Komentarji - (Komentarji so zaprti) Entomologija, Skepticizem Slaba znanost, Entomologija, Logične zmote, Škodljivci, Prevare in goljufije, Skepticizem Po mojem dnevno vozi nazaj v Berkeley, To sem opazila (Opravičilo za Cruddy slike). Dejansko, Videl sem peščica teh pop up okrog San Franciscu in zaradi tega želim trgati moje lase ven vsakič. Za tiste, ki so novi na moj blog, 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.
Skupna raba tega! 7 Komentarji - (Komentarji so zaprti) Entomologija Slaba znanost, Metulji, Entomologija, Mimika, Taksonomija Fail Wow to je bilo pred nekaj tedni od moje zadnje sporočilo, in sem malo v zadregi, ko je izpustil tako dolgo. Kaj sem počel? Ne cela ne. Ni impresivna zbiranje izleti, nobene nove vrste ali odkritja. Pravzaprav sem sedel na mikroskopom seciranje spolovila ali databasing parazitske muhe. 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. Končno, 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.
Skupna raba tega!Another not all that difficult GOP challenge, found here from the Scottish TV website. What’s wrong with the story below?
Skupna raba tega! 6 Komentarji - (Komentarji so zaprti) Entomologija Tekmovanje, Entomologija, Lepidoptera, Mediji, Molji 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! (glej buggirl) Skupna raba tega!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 Skupna raba tega! 5 Komentarji - (Komentarji so zaprti) Entomologija Zbiranje, Entomologija, Lepidoptera, Molji, Pajki |
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