Saya agak lalai memposting tantangan reguler, jadi saya akan mencoba untuk mengambil langkah. Siapa yang bisa memberi tahu saya tentang kupu-kupu ini? Yang paling Anda dapatkan adalah dari bagian barat AS. Kredit untuk keluarga, genus atau spesies dan konyol kredit untuk subspesies dan dari mana asalnya.
Euphydryas anicia cloudcrofti
Ted berhasil dengan cepat mengidentifikasi lep ini dengan akurasi yang menakjubkan untuk seorang pria kumbang. Anda para penderita kusta yang membaca ini harus menundukkan kepala karena malu karena tidak melompat lebih cepat.
Seperti yang disebutkan di komentar, kupu-kupu ini hanya terbang di sekitar kota resor Cloudcroft, New Mexico di Pegunungan Sacramento. Selama bertahun-tahun mereka berjuang agar ini terdaftar sebagai spesies yang terancam punah, tetapi telah gagal di setiap upaya (penolakan terbaru adalah Agustus 2009). Kota ini bergantung hampir secara eksklusif pada resor ski musim dingin dan pengembang telah berhasil melawan perlindungan. Seluruh area berada di dalam Hutan Nasional Lincoln, tetapi mereka hanya menutup area untuk pengumpulan kupu-kupu, bukan pengembangan. Saat bertanya kepada dinas kehutanan tentang kupu-kupu ini, mereka dengan tegas menyatakan bahwa checkerspot terancam punah (padahal tidak). Tentu saja mereka tidak ingin Anda mengambilnya – tetapi jika Anda menawarkan beberapa juta untuk mengembangkan habitatnya, itu cerita yang berbeda.
I sat rapt in front of my TV on Sunday watching the latest installment of the BBC/Discovery series “Life”. The first thing that comes to my mind… “WHY was Oprah chosen to narrate!?” Tentu saja, I waited for the insects special to air before I blogged about this, but having to listen to Oprah for the last few weeks has been scratching at the back of my eyes. I guess I could have gone out and purchased the BBC version with the iconic voice of Sir David Attenborough instead…
To get a better grip of just how obnoxious Oprah is, you can watch thesame clip on Discovery. I have never considered Oprah to be anything close to scientifically minded – and her lavishsupport of Jenny McCarthyproves the point. For those who are not up to date – McCarthy is the leading proponent of the anti-vaccination movement. You can even go as far as attributing her PR campaign topreventable deaths.I’ll have to return to this subject another time.
Back to the topic at hand. There was some incredibly stunning insect footage, and a few vignettes about insect life I might not have otherwise ever seen. It seems like the US version of Life has been slightly re-written with zero factual contribution. Basic lines are changed from “she was not in the mood” untuk “uh-oh, looks like a headache”. Seems like a step down to me, albeit a tiny one. I was also a little annoyed with the continual focus on vertebrates – birds that eat flies, bears that eat honey, lizards that mimic Carabids – and anthropomorphizing intention, mis. the ants “crowning achievement of large complex communities… the closest thing in nature to human cities”. While it may be true that giant ant colonies superficially resemble human cities, I wouldn’t call them the “crowning achievement of insects”. Mind boggling in complexity, ya – but overshadowing other non-social adaptations? This all boils down to a false premise that evolution is striving for human-like qualities and is directional.
But nothing to be overly critical about. Given the diversity and complexity of the insect world, I wouldn’t have even been happy with two weeks of solid footage. I would love to see what was left on the cutting room floor!
It was a beautiful day today in the bay area, so I headed up to Napa and the Pope Valley. I was scouting some new territory for a small flower moth, Speedy Heliolonche, that apparently is waiting for more contiguous nice weather to emerge. This season has been a bit tardy because of all of the cold and rain, but I hold out hopes for a successful return visit in a few weeks. Namun, I did come across a handful of beautiful microleps. All of these moths are in the genusAdelaand familyAdelidae (or some would sayIncurvariidae). They are commonly known as “fairy moths” because they appear to dance over patches of flowers – which apparently fairies love to do. It looked like males were defending a small area, with two to three at a time, twirling around each-other a few inches above the blossoms. I assume these dances were territorial because no mating was observed. While females have long antennae, the males take it to excess. I collected a nice series but Ihaven’t nailed down the species yet – how many do you see? Thankfully, all of theAdelidaewere covered in a 1969 paper by Jerry Powell, who also happens to live down the street from me.
After looking through the collections here at the CAS, and reading the monograph, it looks like most of these areAdela trigrapha. It is a common Adelid of the San Francisco Bay area and most of the coastal ranges of CA. Variation is noted to be considerable, with broken and unbroken bands as well as variation of the red on the crown. The other Adelid is easily ID’d toAdela flammeusella.
Angsuran lain dari Genius of the Press, dan mungkin sedikit softball. (Astaga ini mudah ditemukan) Siapa yang bisa memberi tahu saya apa yang salah dengan artikel ini?
Awan pecah sore ini di San Francisco dan matahari mulai bersinar. Cuaca hangat akan datang disebabkan perasaan terlalu akrab, salah satu yang saya harus keluar mengumpulkan serangga, bukan duduk di dalam ruangan! Sementara saya sudah pernah ke beberapa tempat musim semi ini, I have a long season of collecting ahead. Looking forward I couldn’t help but to reflect on the past two spectacular years the west has given me. To illustrate my addiction, here is a caption of my Google Earth GPS points.
Each flag represents a separate collecting event (disregard the yellow pins), between fall 2007 and winter 2009. I have not kept track of the miles for dedicated collecting trips (perhaps to avoid shock), but it must be approaching 30,000. My Honda Accord may not be a typical field vehicle, but it makes the distance substantially more affordable. Of course the two flat tires and cracked windshield don’t help. You can easily tell that I lived in southern California with that giant blob of flags. Most of those are focused in Santa Barbara county, which yielded two new species and dozens of county records. Arizona comes second with two 10 day trips with each night in a different location. I then broke free of the southwest last summer and drove a long loop through the midwest over the course of two and a half weeks. I pulled in around 4,000 lepidoptera and have just started putting the finishing touches on the last of the specimens. Sejauh ini, only one new species – a sole specimen of a small Acrolophidae from western Texas (determined by Peter Jump who is writing the MONA fascicle on the group). Plenty left to still ID.
On the board for this year: A trip to Leavenworth, Washington for the 2010 Lepidopterists’ Society meeting. The two week collecting trip will shoot north to Washington then loop east through Idaho, Utah and Nevada on the way home. But as always, Arizona and Mexico are beaconing. And now that I live in Berkeley I will have to get into the Sierra a few more times this year!
Saya benar-benar bingung untuk memahami yang lain studi akupunktur positif itu juga dirancang sebagai proyek pameran sains kelas 8 saya. Memang, Saya adalah seorang kutu buku ilmu anak, tapi aku bisa melakukan pekerjaan yang lebih baik mabuk. Saya pikir saya harus melakukan studi lanjutan di mana saya menguji kemanjuran landak yang dilemparkan ke punggung Anda. Pasti lebih seru; dan penuh dengan nilai ilmiah yang sama besarnya. Apalagi, landak agak lucu.
Masalah sebenarnya dengan studi:
tidak buta
n=15. Tes x² mereka mungkin menghasilkan respons yang signifikan, tetapi tidak ada imajinasi alam semesta mana pun yang melakukannya 15 sama dengan pengambilan sampel yang signifikan secara statistik dari populasi mana pun, dimana saja.
Tidak ada kontrol negatif. Mereka merawat semua pasien mereka dengan akupunktur atau vitamin. Vitamin B kompleks adalah pengobatan (masih sangat kurang didukung), dan hanya kontrol positif. Siapa yang mengatakan bau tidak membaik secara alami selama penelitian? Penulis tidak bisa.
Jadi pertanyaan saya adalah, apa yang mungkin bisa menjadi motivasi untuk penelitian ini?? Saya bisa membayangkan bagaimana ini diimpikan, kelilingi buku mewarnai suatu hari nanti “Hai Dok Julia, akupunktur pasti berhasil ya?” “Mengapa ya itu sesama idiot, mari kita buat studi yang benar-benar jelek untuk menunjukkan hal itu!”. Melihat posting akupunktur saya yang lebih tua untuk lebih banyak tautan dan sedikit lebih banyak diskusi tentang mengapa pengobatan Tiongkok kuno membuang-buang uang. Tentu saja jika Anda menguji 15 orang-orang yang dapat Anda kumpulkan hasil positif untuk apa saja. Tetapi ketika Anda mulai memperkenalkan studi yang lebih besar dan terkontrol dengan ketat, efek positifnya mulai menyusut.
Konyol. Dan sekarang aku melihatnya, proyek pameran sains kelas 8 saya dilakukan dengan dua set kontrol, buta, dan memiliki ukuran sampel 18 (efektivitas antibakteri pembersih dapur). Terima kasih, Saya akan dengan hormat mengambil posisi saya di University of Cologne Medical Center sekarang.
A continuation of the aquamoth series, this time withvideo from Science Friday! Ya, I have to link it because wordpress won’t embed…Thanks Ted, figured it out!
Beberapa gambar dari perjalanan ibu akhir pekan saya ke Shell Creek, Kabupaten San Luis Obispo. Awal musim semi di sepanjang pantai tengah sangat menakjubkan, dan jalan belakang dipenuhi oleh para pengamat bunga. Ada puluhan mobil yang ditempati oleh keluarga yang keluar untuk perjalanan akhir pekan, many had packed lunches and sat to watch the flowers grow. While I am happy to see people enjoying the natural beauty, it is difficult to see the damage their trampling can cause. Namun, if more people could get out to appreciate nature, perhaps it would be easier to protect. The flowers were so bright and dense it was difficult to focus on moths, and after a few hours I started to go a little snow-blind (or as it shall forever be now known, flower-blind). Here are a few feeble attempts to capture the beauty.
These pieces of art are the creation ofRobert J. Lang. Chances are if you’ve seen some insane origami than they were his creation. Ya, those are actually made from one single piece of uncut paper. He provides the crease pattern for most of his designs, but actually folding something from that pattern has to be nearly impossible without knowing the sequence. It’s very impressive, but if you’re a bit lazier, you can cut and fold out your own simple insectsinstead.
For those who saw the FOX interview with MSU entomologist Dr. Cognato (Oke, for those who didn’t, here it is), you will be interested to hear his side of the story.
Take the time to register (maaf, it’s annoying but I couldn’t find it anywhere else) and read a response to the interview by Dr. Cognato, di sini. In summary, he basically confirmed what was suspected, that they weren’t 100% straightforward with him in the first place and only gave him about six hours to prep. It is nice to hear that Tucker Carlson was actually interested in the entomolgy collection (although, perceived interest is a key tactic in the reporters tool-belt to disarm his interviewee…). Nonetheless, Cognato did a good job battling off the mindless, anti-science, right wing, propaganda machine. It is clear that he was put in a difficult situation, FOX came to him and wanted to discuss the collection. He knew he wasn’t going to be the best prepared for the interview (I know I sure wouldn’t be either!), but had to stand up for the collection in fear that they might have trampled on it without any fair rebuttal. It is sad we have almost no source of unbiased news nowadays. If you followed this story you should take the time to read about how it really happened.
