Ó phiobair Pericopinae. Thaifeadadh mé an físeán seo ar an láthair i dtuaisceart na Costa Rica cúpla bliain ó shin. Nuair a shroich mé síos a phiocadh suas an moth, bhí sé deacair a sheachaint noticing an iompar. An moth, Cheton angulosa (Erebidae: Pericopina) ((úsáidtear a bheith Arctiidae)), Tá meicníocht cosanta coiteann don ghrúpa – excrete siad hemolymph a dhíspreagadh mbeadh-a attackers. Go leor de na leamhain é seo a dhéanamh, ach ní fhaca mé é sin ar taispeáint mórthaibhseach. Má tá tú ag éisteacht go cúramach is féidir leat éisteacht leis an fuaim hissing mar go bhfuil an sreabhach pumped fhoirm an gcomhlacht. Cad é is suntasaí é an chaoi go láidir smelled sé de lus an phiobair… láidir go leor go raibh mé díreach tar éis a thabhairt dó dul. Faraor, ní raibh sé blas mar atá fógraithe. Cé nach raibh sé excruciating, Ba é an éifeacht is suntasaí ar numbness tobann a mhair ar feadh nóiméad roinnt. Stuif Pretty potent, agus is féidir liom a shamhlú an éifeacht ar éan beag nó a d'fhéadfadh a bheith i bhfad níos lú mamach amusing.
Dealraíonn sé cosúil go bhfuil bitheolaithe nós greannmhar blaiseadh a n-ábhar. Shuigh mé ar na mallaibh i ar caint herpetology maidir le froganna nimhe-DART. Ar tadhlaí beag, raibh a fhios agat go bhfuil an coloration na froganna famously aposematic tástáil déanta riamh go dtí le déanaí? Is é an bhfíric go raibh siad nimhiúil go maith ar a dtugtar, ach gan aon duine a ghlac riamh an t-am chun a fháil amach a n-dathanna oiriúnach i ndáiríre samhail fíor aposematic, is é sin – dhéanann siad a dhíspreagadh ndáiríre creachadóirí sa fiáin? Casadh amach nach ionadh, yes, a dhéanann siad. Ach tá sé deas go i ndáiríre tá na sonraí quantitate chun tacú leis an dearbhú fada ar siúl. Ar ais go blaiseadh – is tástáil herper maith ar a dtugtar a thabhairt ar an frog nó buaf lick. Cé gur féidir leis seo cabhrú i ndáiríre chun speiceas herp a aithint, is cosúil níos mó seans a bheith ina éifeacht taobh amusing uaireanta fada i réimse. Gan a bheith ina herper Ní féidir liom a thabhairt chun cuimhne an t-ainm nó an grúpa seo i bhfeidhm ar; ach páipéar cáiliúil chuaigh isteach doimhneacht iontach chun cur síos a dhéanamh ar an cách, éifeacht potent agus na contúirtí féideartha a bhaineann le gach speiceas buaf ligh (bhí sé seo athbhreithniú tacsanomaíoch legit).
Is é an sampla ach amháin le haghaidh blaiseadh úsáideach i feithidí gur féidir liom smaoineamh ar ceart anois ar feadh dhá féileacáin cosúil strikingly- Thoas Papilio/cresphontes. Creidim thoas Tá boladh milis flowery nuair a ghabháil tú é úr (yes, Ní blas… ach gar), áfach, tá mé riamh le feiceáil seo fhoilsiú nó a thástáil féin é, mar sin d'fhéadfadh sé a bheith apocryphal. Tá sé, áfach, ar eolas go maith go bhfuil boladh mhaith féileacáin go láidir ar a n-hostplant: nós Coróin na Spiéire smelling de Apocynum (boladh glasraí láidir). Go leor de spás le haghaidh tuilleadh imscrúdaithe anseo. Ach gan amhras úsáideann bitheolaí gach cúig de chuid céadfaí aon uair is féidir leis a.
I gcás na ceithre seachtaine anuas anois tá mé ar chase gé, do moth amháin, Heliolonche celeris. Tá sé Noctuidae beag álainn le forewings pinkish agus hindwings oráiste-dearg néal. It isn’t very often encountered and only found along the northern California mountain ranges feeding onMalacothrix floccifera– bláth endemic CA. Every trip I have gotten skunked, until today – I collected two! As you may recall my first outing was about a month ago, no moth, but a beautiful series of specimens andphotographs of Adela leamhain. The last few trips haven’t even come close to being as productive as the Adela one. So what to do when not finding your target? Get a sun burn and take some crummy photos.
Recently came across some ridiculouslyhorrible taxonomy from China (.pdf). If you scroll down a bit you can see the english translation. At first glance this looks like a standard taxonomy paper with bare-bones species descriptions. You might even think to yourself, “huh, wonder why they are describing species from only one specimen”. Not the end of the world, I’ve even done it myself. OK, to be fair, I had complete life histories and DNA to support those decisions. Here – they have neither. Agus, once you take a look at the specimen illustrations, something should become shockingly apparent. What do these specimens have in common (other than the poor image quality)?
to fake a UFO encounter? I recorded this video two years ago over the desert of Arizona. To confess, it made my heart skip a beat at first. I turned around and there were three glowing lights floating silently above me. I literally thought to myself “holy s#@% I don’t believe in this crap!”. The scale is really lost in the video, but they were huge and hovering under a high cloud cover. When the video zooms in you see a small light on the ground for reference. Our brain, being so inclined, makes it appear as if these lights are linked together in a massive triangle.
I walked back to the car while keeping a careful eye out for cacti and rattlesnakes (I was photographing a mojave rattler at the time), and grabbed a pair of binoculars. With a decent magnification it was clear that these were flares. Now only could you see a flickering light on the clouds above, but long trails of smoke rising above them. As you followed the flares down they gradually winked out – only to reappear some distance away (another drop). This was then followed by a series of fighter jets flying extremely low over the desert. Basically, this is the exact same thing that caused the “lights over phoenix” flurry a few years ago.
Mar sin,, I uploaded this video to Youtube and didn’t call it a UFO – just some mysterious lights. Will it be adopted as UFO proof? I sure hope so. Not only that, I hope it appears on some UFO documentary in the future. It’s not as “compelling” as other “Deaglán” videos, but my Canon point-and-shoot camera could only do so well.
While extra-terrestrials likely exist, there is absolutely zero compelling evidence to suggest they have visited us – and thanks to the laws of Physics, it is probable that they will never be able to visit regardless of how technologically advanced they become.
We need to be conservationists to be sure, preserving wetlands, forests, open spaces and coastlines. We need to reduce our waste — plastic trash and the like. But what we really need is big, new ideas: new ways to distribute and store energy for electric power, new ways to conserve and distribute clean water for farming and gulping, and new ways get ourselves and our cargo around, so that we don’t change the Earth’s climates too much as we burn our fossil fuels.
I’ve been busy spreading microleps over the last few days, and here is a small selection from my summer collecting trips. Still have at least another 200 to go before catching up on my backlog. I am working on illustrating just how to spread these moths… mar sin fanacht tuned.
2009 was a great season. I explored tons of new land and collected at least 6 speicis nua. Let’s hope for twice that many in the year to come.
So what is wrong with this illustration below? Sounds like a great show at theKrohn Conservatoryin Cincinnati. Thisnews storymade me look just a little closer…
Mé teacht trasna ar roinnt athscríbhinní r-phost ceisteanna a sheoladh isteach inár rannóg feithideolaíocht agus ní féidir liom resist roinnt leo. Geallaim go bhfuil na teachtaireachtaí (agus beidh) 100% fíor agus gan eagarthóireacht. Ainmneacha athraíodh nó a bhaint a chosaint ar an neamhchiontach. Táimid dóchasach, Beidh mé ag teacht ar fud na gach uair amháin ar feadh tamaill, and keep this as an ongoing series. Submissions of your own are encouraged!
Tá brón orainn, this first one islong – but well worth the read.
1 Márta 2006: 3:23pm.
“I am sending you pictures of a spider I possess that appears to be a Zoropsis spinimana. I need more information about this spider than is what is on the internet. chomh maith leis sin, I do not know if this spider is male or female. I have had the spider for 2 seachtaine. It is still alive-but I am not sure what it eats. I have tried several things. If you are interested in this spider we can talk more-however, I get the feeling that this spider is not of real interest to your department. Please respond to me and examine the pictures. If you do not want me to email you again then, please tell me or I will assume that you did not get my email with the pictures. Both you and Dr. “X” are extremely busy and it appears that you travel a great deal. Probably with more interesting things than this spider. The pictures are below-if you cannot access them then please notify me and I will try “what ever I can do” to get these pictures to you. Thank you for any help you can give me,”
