Kutoka peremende Pericopinae. Mimi kumbukumbu video hii kwenye tovuti ya kaskazini mwa Costa Rica miaka michache iliyopita. Nilipofika chini kuchukua nondo hii, ilikuwa ni vigumu kuepuka noticing tabia. nondo, Chetone ngulosa (Erebidae: Pericopina) ((kutumika kwa kuwa Arctiidae)), ina kawaida ya kujihami utaratibu wa kundi hili – wao excrete hemolimfatiki kuzuia wanaotaka kuwa washambuliaji. Kura ya nondo kufanya hivyo, lakini sijawahi kuona hivyo spectacularly kuonyeshwa. Kama kusikiliza kwa makini unaweza kusikia kuzomewa sauti kama maji husukumwa aina mwili. Yaliyo ya kuvutia ni jinsi nguvu ni inanukia ya peremende… sana kiasi kwamba mimi tu alikuwa na kuwapa go. Cha kusikitisha, haikuwa ladha kama kutangazwa. Ingawa hakuwa excruciating, athari zaidi liko mara kuganda ghafla ambayo ilidumu kwa dakika kadhaa. Pretty potent mambo, na siwezi kufikiria athari kwenye ndege ndogo au mamalia huenda mbali kidogo amusing.
Inaonekana kama biolojia na funny tabia ya kuonja masomo yao. Mimi hivi karibuni ameketi katika tarehe majadiliano herpetolojia kuhusu vyura sumu-dart. On tangent kidogo, Je, ulijua kuwa rangi ya haya vyura maarufu aposematic haijawahi kufanyiwa majaribio hadi hivi karibuni? ukweli kwamba wao walikuwa sumu ni yanajulikana, lakini hakuna milele walichukua muda ili kuona kama rangi zao kweli fit kweli aposematic mfano, hiyo ni – kufanya kweli kuzuia predators katika pori? Zinageuka si ya kushangaza, ndiyo, wao. Lakini ni vyema kwa kweli kuwa na data quantitate kusaidia madai haya ya muda mrefu uliofanyika. Nyuma kwa kuonja – yanajulikana herper mtihani ni kuwapa chura au chura lick. Wakati huu unaweza kweli kusaidia kutambua aina ya Herp, ni uwezekano mkubwa inaonekana kuwa amusing upande athari za muda mrefu katika uwanja. Kutokuwa herper Siwezi kukumbuka jina au kikundi hiki kutumika kwa; lakini karatasi maarufu akaenda kina kubwa kuelezea ladha, potent athari na hatari ya uwezo zinazohusiana na kila licked aina ya chura (hii ilikuwa legit taxonomic ukaguzi).
mfano tu kwa ajili ya manufaa ya kuonja katika wadudu kwamba naweza kufikiria hivi sasa ni kwa ajili ya vipepeo wawili yakawa sawa- Papilio thoas/cresphontes. Naamini thoas ina tamu flowery harufu wakati kupata hiyo safi (ndiyo, si ladha… lakini karibu), hata hivyo sijawahi kuonekana hii kuchapishwa au majaribio yake mwenyewe, hivyo huenda ni ya kubuniwa. Ni hata hivyo yanajulikana kwamba vipepeo wengi harufu sana wa hostplant yao: kama vile Speyeria coronis harufu ya Apocynum (nguvu mboga harufu). Kura ya chumba kwa uchunguzi zaidi hapa. Lakini bila shaka mwanabiolojia inatumia zote tano ya akili yake wakati wowote anaweza.
Kwa mwishoni mwa wiki minne iliyopita sasa Nimekuwa kwenye Goose baada, kwa nondo moja, Speedy Heliolonche. Ni nzuri ndogo Noctuidae na forewings pinkish na hindwings stunning machungwa-nyekundu. Haipatikani mara nyingi sana na hupatikana tu kwenye safu za milima ya kaskazini mwa California Malacothrix floccifera– CA endemic maua. Kila safari nimepata skunked, mpaka leo – Nilikusanya mbili! Kama unavyoweza kukumbuka safari yangu ya kwanza ilikuwa karibu mwezi mmoja uliopita, hakuna nondo, lakini mfululizo mzuri wa vielelezo na picha za Adela nondo. Safari chache zilizopita hata hazijakaribia kuwa na tija kama ile ya Adela. Kwa hivyo nini cha kufanya wakati haujapata lengo lako? Pata kuchomwa na jua na uchukue picha za crummy.
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. sawa, to be fair, I had complete life histories and DNA to support those decisions. Here – they have neither. Na, 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)?
kughushi mkutano wa UFO? Nilirekodi video hii miaka miwili iliyopita kwenye jangwa la Arizona. Kukiri, ilifanya moyo wangu kuruka mapigo mwanzoni. Niligeuka na kulikuwa na taa tatu zinazowaka zikielea kimya juu yangu. Nilijiwazia kihalisi “mtakatifu #@% siamini katika upuuzi huu!”. 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.
Hivyo, 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.
Nimekuwa busy kueneza microleps juu ya siku chache zilizopita, na hapa ni uteuzi ndogo kutoka safari yangu majira ya joto kukusanya. Bado kuwa na angalau mwingine 200 kabla ya kwenda kuambukizwa hadi juu ya backlog yangu. Mimi ni kazi ya kufafanua tu jinsi ya kuenea nondo haya… hivyo kukaa tuned.
2009 ilikuwa wakati wa kubwa. Mimi Kugundua tani ya nchi mpya na zilizokusanywa angalau 6 aina mpya. Hebu matumaini kwa mara mbili kwamba wengi katika mwaka ujao.
Kwa hivyo ni nini kibaya na mfano huu hapa chini? Inaonekana kama onyesho kubwa kwenye Krohn Conservatory huko Cincinnati. Hii hadithi ya habari ilinifanya niangalie kwa karibu kidogo…
Nimekuja hela chache nakala e-mail ya maswali kutumwa katika entomolojia idara yetu na siwezi kupinga kushirikiana nao. Mimi ahadi ujumbe huu ni (na itakuwa) 100% halisi na unedited. Majina yamebadilishwa au kuondolewa kulinda wasio na hatia. Kwa matumaini, Mimi kuja hela hizi kila mara moja kwa wakati, na uweke huu kama mfululizo unaoendelea. Mawasilisho yako mwenyewe yanahimizwa!
Pole, hii ya kwanza ni ndefu – lakini inafaa kusoma.
1 Machi 2006: 3:23pm.
“Ninakutumia picha za buibui niliye nao anayeonekana kuwa Zoropsis spinimana. Ninahitaji maelezo zaidi kuhusu buibui huyu kuliko ilivyo kwenye mtandao. Pia, Sijui kama huyu buibui ni dume au jike. Nimekuwa na buibui kwa 2 wiki. Bado iko hai-lakini sina uhakika inakula nini. Nimejaribu mambo kadhaa. Ikiwa una nia ya buibui hii tunaweza kuzungumza zaidi-hata hivyo, Ninapata hisia kwamba buibui huyu hana maslahi ya kweli kwa idara yako. Tafadhali nijibu na uchunguze picha. Ikiwa hutaki nikutumie barua pepe tena basi, tafadhali niambie au nitachukulia kuwa haukupata barua pepe yangu na picha. Wewe na Dr. “X” una shughuli nyingi na inaonekana unasafiri sana. Pengine na mambo ya kuvutia zaidi kuliko buibui hii. Picha ziko hapa chini-ikiwa huwezi kuzifikia basi tafadhali nijulishe na nitajaribu “chochote ninachoweza kufanya” ili kupata picha hizi kwako. Asante kwa msaada wowote unaoweza kunipa,”
