Minn pepermint Pericopinae. I rreġistrati dan il-video fuq il-post fil-Kosta tat-Tramuntana Rika ftit snin ilu. Meta wasalt isfel li jtellgħu din kamla, kien diffiċli li tiġi evitata jinnota l-imġieba. Il kamla, Angulosa Chetone (Erebidae: Pericopina) ((użati biex ikunu Arctiidae)), għandha mekkaniżmu difensiv komuni għal dan il-grupp – dawn ineħħu hemolymph li jiskoraġġixxu min ikun attakkanti. Lottijiet ta 'friefet tagħmel dan, imma jien qatt ma rajt hekk spettakolari murija. Jekk inti tisma 'b'attenzjoni inti tista' tisma l-ħoss hissing bħala l-fluwidu jiġi ppumpjat jiffurmaw il-korp. Liema kienet l-aktar impressjonanti huwa kif qawwi huwa smelled ta pepermint… qawwi biżżejjed li I biss kellhom tagħtiha a go. Sfortunatament, hija ma togħma kif reklamata. Filwaqt li ma kienx excruciating, l-aktar effett notevoli kien tnemnim f'daqqa li dam għal diversi minuti. Jittieħed pretty potenti, u I jista 'jimmaġina l-effett fuq l-għasafar żgħar jew mammiferi jista' jkun ferm inqas divertenti.
Jidher bħal bijoloġisti għandhom drawwa umoristiċi ta tidwiq suġġetti tagħhom. I reċentement sib fil dwar talk herpetology dwar żrinġijiet velenu-dart. Fuq tanġent żgħira, kont taf li l-kolorazzjoni ta 'dawn żrinġijiet famużament aposematic tkun QATT ġie ttestjat sa ftit ilu? Il-fatt li dawn kienu velenużi hija magħrufa sew, imma ebda wieħed qatt ħa l-ħin biex tara jekk kuluri tagħhom fil-fatt jitwaħħal mudell aposematic veru, jiġifieri – ma huma verament tiskoraġġixxi predaturi fis-selvaġġ? Jinstabx mhux sorpriża, iva, dawn ma. Iżda huwa sbieħ li attwalment quantitate tagħrif li jappoġġja dan l-affermazzjoni għal żmien twil miżmuma. Lura għall b'togħma – test herper magħrufa sew huwa li jagħti l-Żrinġ jew bufo lagħaq. Filwaqt li dan jista 'effettivament jgħin biex jidentifikaw l-ispeċi ta' HERP, aktar probabbli jidher li jkun effett sekondarju divertenti ta 'sigħat twal fil-qasam. Li ma jkunx herper I ma tiftakarx l-isem jew il-grupp dan applika għall; iżda karta famuż mar fil-fond kbira biex jiddeskrivu l-gosti, effett qawwi u l-perikli potenzjali assoċjati ma 'kull speċi toad licked (dan kien reviżjoni tassonomika leġittimu).
L-uniku eżempju għal b'togħma utli fl-insetti li I jistgħu jaħsbu dritt issa huwa għal żewġ friefet impressjonanti simili- thoas Papilio/cresphontes. Nemmen thoas għandha riħa flowery ħelwa meta inti qabda frisk (iva, mhux togħma… iżda qrib), madankollu Stajt qatt dehru dan pubblikati jew ittestjati myself, għalhekk jista 'jkun apocryphal. madankollu, huwa magħruf sew li ħafna friefet riħa qawwi ta hostplant tagħhom: bħal Gwarniċuni Fritillary jinxtammu ta Apocynum (riħa veġetali qawwija). Lottijiet ta 'spazju għal aktar investigazzjoni hawn. Iżda mingħajr dubju bijologu użi kollha ħamsa mill sensi tiegħu kull meta hu jista.
Għall-aħħar erba weekends issa I ġew fuq chase wiżż, għall kamla wieħed, Speedy Heliolonche. Huwa Noctuidae żgħir sabiħa ma forewings roża u stordament hindwings-oranġjo-aħmar. It isn’t very often encountered and only found along the northern California mountain ranges feeding onMalacothrix floccifera– fjura endemika 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 kamla. 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. kollox sew, to be fair, I had complete life histories and DNA to support those decisions. Here – they have neither. U, 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.
Allura, 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 “UFO” 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… sabiex tissospendi sintonizzat.
2009 was a great season. I explored tons of new land and collected at least 6 speċi ġodda. Let’s hope for twice that many in the year to come.
Allura x'inhu ħażin ma 'din l-illustrazzjoni hawn taħt? Ħsejjes bħal spettaklu kbir fil- Konservatorju Krohn f’Cincinnati. Dan storja tal-aħbarijiet għamilni nħares ftit eqreb…
Stajt jiltaqgħu ftit transcripts e-mail ta 'mistoqsijiet mibgħuta fis dipartiment entomoloġija tagħna u I ma tistax tirreżisti qsim tagħhom. I wegħda dawn il-messaġġi huma (u se jkun) 100% reali u unedited. Ismijiet ġew mibdula jew imneħħija biex jipproteġu l-innoċenti. Nisperaw, I se jiltaqgħu dawn kull darba fil-waqt, and keep this as an ongoing series. Submissions of your own are encouraged!
Jiddispjacini, this first one islong – but well worth the read.
1 Marzu 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. Ukoll, I do not know if this spider is male or female. I have had the spider for 2 ġimgħat. 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,”
