Over onMyrmecos Alex Wild just brought to my attention a rather personal attack from a pair of republican senators (Том Кобурн, R-Оклахома., и Джон Маккейн, R-Аризона). Я снова начал комментировать, но, учитывая, насколько близко к дому это парад, Я чувствовал больше наматывается обличительную речь приближается…
По-видимому, my job is agiant waste of money. Funding that the California Academy of Sciences (my employer) has received, is coming under direct attack. Хорошо, myposition has nothing to do with Antweb and I am not supported by public funds – but some of my colleagues are. Colleagues that have the exact same job title as my own, work a few doors down, and happen to work on different projects funded from different sources. What this boils down to is not only a republican war on science (go find that book), but a republican war on intellectualism. Everyone whose scaly little hand has crafted this report is not only willfully ignorant but is being outright dishonest. What is their unstated major premise here? The logical fallacy runs somewhere along the line of…
A) Democrats are wasting money because we are not in power.
Си) By pointing out where this money is being “wasted” we will help save it and in turn ingratiate ourselves to the voters.
Си) Supporting science (например. wasteful spending) is the cause of our economic problems.
Свежий со стола на Nature News является особенностью размышлял мир без комаров (или пальцев). Как это новости? Возможно, есть какая-то новая векторное управление мы все должны услышать о! Хорошо, проверить статью из последнего издания природы под названием “Мир без комаров“. Я впервые столкнулся с этим на Блог П. З. Майерса и начал писать комментарий… который начал расти в геометрической прогрессии, поэтому я решил написать об этом в блоге.
Хорошо, может быть, не. But I did get a little jealous when I came acrossэта статьяwhere I discovered a local San Francisco artist who is charging $60 поп для “насекомых распространения классы”. Интересно, сколько на самом деле показать, до месячного класса? Это только в, Chris Grinter is offering an insect spreading class for merely $49.99! I’d probably make it all sciency though and no one would show…
But while you’re learning the ways of pinning you can pick up your creepy victorian taxidermy character.
Почти время для другого объема Гений прессы. Who will be first to spotthe error here? Предоставленный, информация раздел Калифорнии фиксированная ставка движущегося сайте не совсем источником высшего качества журналистики…
Вот еще несколько изображений с мое недавнее северная дорога поездка, на этот раз от западной Айдахо. Прямо вне города New Meadows были поля цветов толщиной с жизнью. Это была часть лучшего дня сбора я сделал в годы, and fellow road tripper Peter Jump and I discovered this population ofAdela flammeusella. This represents a likely state record for Idaho and possibly the eastern most population known for this species. They are supposedly associated with Owl’s Clover (some now reassigned toCastilleja), but I don’t recall ever seeing any at this location. I usually notice this plant whenever I’m in the field because it is the host to a handful of other interesting leps.
One frustrating character of the genus Adela is the homogeneity of the genitalia. For any entomologist out there it is par for the course to use the morphology of genitalia as a plethora of characters most useful in species identification. Microleps are often most easily differentiated through dissection, and a few groups must be dissected to even get to genus! But even strikingly different Adela are almost identical internally. Вместо, a leg will go off to get DNA barcoded. Chances are it’s nothing too interesting, but stranger things have been known to happen. At the very least it will be informative to know what the genetic divergence might be across the range of the species.
В восточной Лассен уезда, на обширных высокого можжевельника холмах границе Калифорнии Невада, есть стада “дикий” лошадей, овец и крупного рогатого скота. Паритет для курса, только цветущее растение вокруг было белокудренник (Marrubium обыкновенной). Несмотря на не-жизнь местной флоры и (полу)мега-фауны, насекомые были еще дома. Будучи единственным источником нектара, the small clumps of invasives were packed with thirsty Lycaenidae. In all I netted 6 different species and got some decent shots of 3. It seems like I take a lot of butterfly photos for a moth collector…but it’s hard to pass up such a charismatic group.
But thinking of those horses (ah OK, “mustangs”) has given me a great idea. Да, horses were once part of the prehistoric American fauna up until about 12,000 years ago. While the horse family may have evolved on the American plains, they have been long absent. Reintroduction of horses by the Spaniards planted the seeds that would become a staple of American culture. That is why today millions of dollars and tens of thousands of feral horses run wild in CA, NV and Utah. Even less popular are the somewhat clandestine annual culls that must be strictly enforced to keep these large herds healthy. My solution: reintroduce lions. America was once home to the North American lion (Panthera leo atrox), which stood a whopping 25% larger than the African lion and was the largest cat to have ever lived. These must have feasted on horse-tacos and in turn kept the populations stable. And since our feral horses are of Arabian dissent, we may as well introduce the extremely endangered Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica), that will be well suited to feast on its Persian brethren. If we are conserving “дикий” лошадей, we might as well do it right (плюс, I’d be much more interested in seeing horses if I could see lions too).
Я не слишком уверен, если я продал на эту тему. Я по магазинам вокруг для нового взгляда, и даю “двадцать десять” попробовать. Позвольте мне знать ваше мнение – или не думаю, что вы лучше, чем предыдущий макет “туманный”, или если есть еще один проект вы любите. Будьте особенно критическая (especially since I had zero to do with these pre-fab designs).
Хорошо – didn’t like the new theme all that much, went back to the tried and true misty. I can always hope for a future one that fits this page a bit better though.
Thanks for the input (especially for some received off-blog).
Несколько месяцев назад я был сбор в западной Аризоне и не выполнил ни с какими изображений или обновлений на той поездке. Хорошо, это был успех и хорошо стоит мили туда попасть! I was searching for a Crambid moth in the mountains of theKofa National Wildlife Refuge (special thanks to the Kofa staff for quickly approving my permits). While I’m still sorting through moths from that trip, the timing couldn’t have been better weather wise. It was mild out (mid 90’s is almost cool for that region!) and still wet. As you can see below, there were plenty of moths that night. Here are a few images from the trip… now to catch up with my latest photos!
This is as close to the Big Horn Sheep as I could get…
Я в стороне от дороги с тысячами образцов, немного утомленным и готовы сидеть на месте для немного. В целом, это была замечательная поездка – но у меня есть много-много обработки делать. В то время как я играю в догонялки, нравится этот клип. Насколько я знаю,, нет прямой связи. But the Grinter pool is a small one and it seems like he should be somewhere on my tree. All I can say is that I hope after I am gone there are ghosts of my creepy employees haunting my home, breathing heavily behind visitors (что правда? that’s the latest ghost trick?). I also fully expect a documentary with a guy tryingчто правдаhard to sound creepy – it should be in my last will and testament.
Over the next week and a half I’ll be driving up to Washington state for the annualлепидоптерист’ Встреча Общество. Он расположен в туристической ловушки городе Ливенуорт, который “Баварский тематический” диорама открытки и забивают магазинов. Хотя я никогда не могу совсем понимаю привлекательность тематических городов, it is something Americans just love. Heck, I lived in Solvang for two years (ниже), so Leavenworth will be a nostalgic remembrance.
Now of course I’ll be camping and collecting along the way, so my posting will dip below the already slow norm. I’ll try to post some updates form the road, especially when incredible things happen*. Следите за обновлениями, and enjoy the other spectacular bloggers from my blogroll.
* Which they undoubtedly will. Конечно, I know I promised this from my last road trip to Arizona and have yet to deliver. I’m working on it!
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