توسط chris Grinter, در سپتامبر 8, 2010 در حالی که من در یک پست قابل توجهی کار, شما می توانید این پروانه را نام – و این گیاه باید بسیار آسان است بیش از حد. پاداش اضافی اگر شما می توانید شهرستان حدس می زنم (دولت نمی خواهد بیش از حد قابل توجه) که در آن I این عکس در زمان. این بود قبل از DSLR, but my old beat up canon point-and-shoot did manage to get some good ones.
توسط chris Grinter, در سپتامبر 7, 2010 
داستان غم انگیز به تازگی از بلیز ساخته شده راه خود را – the American Crocodile Education Sanctuary has burned to the ground. در نگاه اول این صرفا یک گزارش تاسف در مورد پژوهش و حفاظت از تاسیسات که در آتش غم انگیز از دست داده شده بود. که, اما, است که کل داستان نیست. It turns out that a mob of indigenous Mayans flew into a rage and torched the facility. چرا? Because a psychic told them the owners had murdered children and fed them to their crocodiles!
It was like something out of a Frankenstein movie,” Cherie Rose said Tuesday. “If we’d been home, they would have killed us. They said they were going to chop us up and feed us to the crocodiles.”
National police confirm that the indigenous Maya villagers were acting on the advice of a psychic who said the Roses had something to do with the August 7 disappearance of 9-year-old Benjamin Rash and his 11-year-old sister Onelia.
The question often comes up – “what harm is it really?” – in regards to this sort of anti-scientifc woo. Most of the time, there really isn’t any damage done, except to the pocketbook. اما, every once in a while, something tragic happens and it all could easily have been avoided with even the tiniest bit of rational thought or discretion. The psychic in town was far and beyond reckless by blaming these gringos – and she should suffer the consequences for her actions. She deliberately blamed two innocent people for the death of local children, which quickly resulted in a severe loss of personal property. Thankfully, Cherie and Vince Rose were both away at the time rescuing a crocodile – they may have not escaped the angry mob had they been at home. Examples of this always make me sad, but reignite my passion for debunking these thieves and criminals.
I suggest visiting the ACES website and blog and either donate or write a note of support. If I weren’t a broke scientist myself, I’d offer more assistance for their efforts to rebuild. اکنون – who will help educate those villagers before this happens again?!
توسط chris Grinter, در سپتامبر 6, 2010 برای خوانندگان به طور منظم از وبلاگ من شما در حال حاضر ممکن است موضع من در پادشاه دانم, ولی catch up here if you’d like to. Yesterday I came across این مقاله in the LA times – با توجه به مستعمرات زمستان گذران از پادشاهان در اقیانوس آرام گراو, CA. از اینجا, در غرب قاره تقسیم, there are quite a few monarchs that migrate to coastal California and Baja del Norte instead of traveling into central Mexico. Not all monarchs from California stay in the state, but there are dozens hundreds of known roosting sites (.مشاهده در قالب PDF) up and down our pacific coast.
Pacific Grove has one of the best known localities and has built the local economy around their seasonal migrants (yet no one is deporting these Mexicans). به طور خلاصه, the town government hired an arborist to cut back dangerous eucalyptus growth. Why was that necessary? Back in 2004 a limb from a diseased native-pine had fallen and killed an 85-year-old woman while on a walk with her grandchildren. In wake of the million dollar settlement paid to the family of the deceased the town decided to preemptively cut back old tree growth. But now everyone is running around screaming foul, the trees were trimmed هم much. بله, the precious homes of the monarchs were disturbed and it has riled the townspeople into a fury. What if the monarch’s don’t return?
Don’t worry, local filmmaker Bob Pacelli has a solution. Let’s just scatter as many eucalyptus trees as we can find into the grove to attract more butterflies.
In desperation, Pacelli came up with a plan: Find boxed trees — preferably blue gum eucalyptus — around 20 feet high and place them at strategic spots to help shelter the incoming monarchs. But the city has been slow to respond, Pacelli said. One official, Pacelli said, wrongly accused him of stepping on a butterfly, a violation of city code. No charges were filed.
For those paying attention, بله, the city council of Pacific Grove has a law on the books that imposes a fine of $1,000 on anyone who molests a butterfly. Good things monarchs don’t roost in catholic churches.
Continue reading Monarch Madness
توسط chris Grinter, on August 27th, 2010 This genius of the press is extra special, not for its difficulty, but for its redundancy. I found the same story carried on two separate sources, with different images – and both equally incorrect! I can imagine that it won’t take long for someone to point out exactly what’s wrong with these stories (hint, وجود دارد 2 things).
Here is the first from the Mirror.co.uk “Giant rare moth found in Devon”.
And the second from the Daily Mail online ” Rare Luna moth found on Devon…”
توسط chris Grinter, در 24 آگوست, 2010 And while I catch up you can watch some creepy Isabella Rossellini re-enact the mating strategies of a bedbug. You should also read, if you haven’t caught it already, the excellent bedbug article written by the distinguished (and my former professor) May Berenbaum.
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توسط chris Grinter, در 14 آگوست, 2010 Tonight, if you’re in San Francisco, you should make your way to Showdogs bar (near the SoMa) for skeptics in the pub with the honorable James Randi! I’ll be in attendance, along with a few fellow entomologist friends. Try this facebook link – but if that fails, the event starts at 9pm.
If you’re not in SF, enjoy some Randi videos instead!
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توسط chris Grinter, در اوت 10, 2010 
در تصویر سفید رگ سیاه است (Aporia crataegi ssp), and it is currently being returned to the Korean Institute of Biological Resources. وام ها برمی گردند, همانطور که باید باشند, هر روز – و حتی می تواند به هزاران نمونه برسد. I myself have a few hundred moths out on loan from a handful of museums that are pending research. As soon as I finish my work (or request an extension), the specimens are promptly returned accompanying my paper. Unfortunately it is not a rare occurrence where loans have gone out, and remained out without permission, for decades. At least in one case to my knowledge (names and institutions redacted) the loaned specimens were out so long they created a small international incident. Foreign ambassadors had to formally request the specimens, which had to be presented in person by our ambassador to their country.
This butterfly, اما, I don’t believe was part of a loan. So why is it going back to Korea?
Continue reading A Disturbing New Trend?
توسط chris Grinter, در 9 آگوست, 2010 This one is just هم easy. این بیلبورد در I-35 جنوب بورلسون قرار دارد, وابسته به تکزاس.
من منشأ واقعی این تصویر را نمی دانم, اما من از طریق عمر بوکانگرا از طریق مایک کوین در لیست سرویس های تگزاس لپیدوپترا قرار گرفتم.
توسط chris Grinter, در 8 آگوست, 2010 
تصادف کردم (نه در stumbleupon) these colored SEM images on the Telegraph webpage today. من مخصوصاً عاشق این تصویر از لارو Calliphoridae هستم (Protophormia sp.) به نظر می رسد بیش از طبیعت از یک فیلم علمی تخیلی با درجه C خارج شده باشد. It reminds me of both a freakish Star Wars character and a Muppet at the same time. The abrupt departure from standard mammalian body architecture makes insects prime candidates for other-worldly aliens. Insects must have been used as a guide for movies like District 9, Starship Troopers, Alien, Galaxy Quest… just to name a few recent ones. I am sure that other, more well-accredited, sci-fi geeks out there can think of even better examples. Along the same lines I recall these images I snapped of a Cerambycidae beetle below – Moneilema gigas. This was in the earliest days of my new camera so I can’t look back on them as perfect shots.
Continue reading Muppet Monsters
توسط chris Grinter, در تاریخ 6 آگوست, 2010 
اینجا یک نر بالای تپه است پروانه سلیاک, یا بلدرچین انیسون. این پروانه در ایالت های غربی اقیانوس آرام گسترده است و احتمالاً بسیار شایع تر از گذشته است. بعد از معرفی رازیانه (Daucus carota), و متعاقباً فرار از باغداری, پرستوی انیسون به عنوان یک پروانه معمولی کالیفرنیا جای گرفت. شاید قبل از اینکه این گیاه از کنار جاده های ما سبقت بگیرد زلیکون ممکن است به کوهپایه های سیرا محدود شده باشد, اکنون می توانید آن را در باغ های کل کالیفرنیا پیدا کنید. اگر چه, به نظر می رسد همه چیز در جنوب کالیفرنیا در حال ناپدید شدن این پروانه از مناطق شهری است. معرفی اخیر شب پره کولی به مناطق Ventura/LA، رژیم های سمپاشی حشره کش را آغاز کرده است. – ناگفته نماند ظاهر یک Tachinidae انگلی مهاجم که عاشق لپ های بزرگتر است. در ساحل شرقی، این مگس انگلی و سمپاشی شدید، پروانه امپراتوری را از بین برده است. (ایکلز امپریالیس) از بسیاری از محدوده آن, آن را در بیشتر نیوانگلند در معرض خطر قرار داده است.
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