کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, اکتوبر 4th پر, 2011 A few months ago a magnificent key to the Lepidoptera of Canada (ان میں سے سب) was published by Jason Dombroskie – یو سے پی ایچ ڈی کے طالب علم. البرٹا. پروگرام میں ابھی تک یہ دریافت کرنے کے لئے ایک اچھا موقع نہیں ہے صرف ونڈوز کے صارفین کے لئے دستیاب ہے – but the PDF is available online and covers the same material. All known Canadian Lepidoptera are included in this key and most of them down to subfamily or even tribe! ہیں 222 taxa, 73 characters and 266 character states that help narrow things down. This is the first reference of its kind to accurately and completely cover the fauna of an entire country and the first to use a well illustrated and interactive key. It’s surprising how well known the leps are yet how few good references exist, almost none of which have a usable key. For everyone out there who has struggled to identify leps before this will be an incredibly helpful resource. عطا, there are likely a few US moths that could throw a wrench into the flow of things, but by and large I doubt there will be many problems.
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, اکتوبر 3rd پر, 2011  Gnophaela vermiculata جوڑی
یہ پیر کیڑے ایک Arctiinae ہے, Gnophaela vermiculata. These beautiful day flying moths were abundant on yellow Helianthus flowers around 9000′ سانتا فے نیشنل فارسٹ میں, نیو میکسیکو. caterpillars کے bluebells کے پر کھانا کھلانا, لیکن بالغ کے علاقے میں سب سے زیادہ معیار امرت منبع کو ترجیح دیتے ہیں – which fortunately makes for easy and attractive photo subjects.
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, ستمبر 30th پر, 2011 آج کا دن طبیعیات کی تاریخ کا ایک افسوسناک دن ہے۔, the Tevatron accelerator at Fermi Lab in Batavia Illinois was powered down for the last time. ایک بار دنیا کا دوسرا سب سے طاقتور ایکسلریٹر (اور امریکہ میں سب سے زیادہ طاقتور), the new ایل ایچ سی has made this beautiful machine obsolete. I can only assume the teams of scientists working at Fermi were hopeful for further funding, but the grand ol’ days of big-budget physics was crushed by congress in 1993 with the cancelation of the SSC. Off to Europe our physicists go!
I have many fond memories of visiting Fermi with my grade school science class. Every year Mr. House would take us to explore the physics and nature surrounding the lab. I recall a feeling of privilege when you visited a real working lab where there were no public displays with cute goggly-eyed atoms, just chalk boards full of Feynman diagrams and 3 day old cups of coffee. But it was probably the fully restored big bluestem prairie that grew on and around the 4 mile collider ring was where I had the most fun and is what left a lasting impact on my scientific career.
And so it goes, the evolution of science in the US. I have noticed this particular trend: 1) An active science facility with lots of research has a tiny museum for public tours. 2) The research loses funding and the tiny museum takes over. 3) The museum is renovated to be more “family” friendly and “interactive”, while science is pushed into the basements. 4) Whatever scientists are left (or students hired to act like scientists) are put under glass for the public to watch like strange creatures; all while true research fades into memory.
 Tevatron at Fermi: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, ستمبر 30th پر, 2011 دی 2011 آئی جی نوبل تقریب میں ہارورڈ یونیورسٹی کے Sanders تھیٹر میں کل جگہ لے لی. ایوارڈ ناممکن ریسرچ کی طرف سے سپانسر کیا جاتا ہے, دلچسپ جمع ایک ایسا تنظیم, عجیب, اور نہیں تمام سائنس بورنگ ہے اس خیال غالب ہے کہ مکمل طور پر مزاحیہ تحقیقی مقالات. اس سال کے ممتاز وصول کنندگان کے درمیان ساتھی کیٹاشتھانی اور بلاگر تھا ڈیوڈ Rentz, جو ایک کے لئے حیاتیات میں IgNobel موصول ہوا ڈسکوری میں بنا دیا 1983 آسٹریلیا outback میں ساتھی ڈیرل Gwynne ساتھ. بیس میں indentations کے ساتھ بھوری بوتل کے ان حیرت کرنے کے لئے ایک مخصوص انداز (“stubbies”) Buprestid برنگ کے مردوں کے لئے irresistible ثابت ہوا جےulodimorpha bakewelli Julodimorpha saundersii (دیکھیں دیکھئے کاغذ اور ذیل میں تبصرہ).
مبارک ہو ڈیو اور ڈیرل!
 Julodimorpha bakewelli ایک بوتل بیر کے ساتھ copulate کرنے کی کوشش. D کی طرف سے تصویر. گیوین
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on September 19th, 2011 [youtube kZyIN23Cy4Y 480 360]
The microscopic insect world is a very different one from ours and we rarely are given glimpses into it. Thanks in part to the impressive Phantom camera system and the Flight Artists project researchers have filmed the minute (1ملی میٹر!) Trichogramma wasp (Chalcidoidea) in flight. These insects are egg parasites of Lepidoptera (amongst other groups undoubtedly) and can be used as effective biocontrol agents. As you’ll see in the video it’s been long understood that these wasps hitchhike on adult Lepidoptera waiting for fresh eggs, but it wasn’t know how they got there and if they were even flying onto the adult hosts. Stunningly, this wasp flaps its wings at ~350 times per second to achieve some astounding feats of movement. The biomechanics of this wing mechanism must be fascinating.
Scroll ahead to 1:07 and watch the interaction of the two wasps – the one that flips off to the left of the screen moves in such a bizarre way it looks like bad CGI. I sure hope they record more species of minute flying insects!
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on September 19th, 2011  Trosia nigrorufa (Megalopygidae)
This Monday moth is a stunning female of the Neotropical Megalopygidae – Trosia nigrorufa. Ed Ross and Ev Schlinger collected this specimen in Peru in 1955, and I’ve heard many stories about these epic expeditions. I can’t really imagine travelling via cargo ship, being gone for six or more months at a time and relying mostly on hand written correspondance. It must have made the world feel like a much larger place than it is today.
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, ستمبر 13th پر, 2011 یہ ایک خوبصورت ہے مہاکاوی میں ناکام. مجھے لگتا ہے “نوجوان بالغ” اشاعت کی ہدایات کے ساتھ کم سخت ہیں “حقائق”.
کرنے کے لئے شکریہ رچرڈ لی براؤن سب سے پہلے فیس بک پر اس پوسٹنگ کے لئے.
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, 12 ستمبر کو, 2011 افوہ, میں نے گزشتہ پیر کا کیڑا چھوڑ دیا۔, تو یہاں دو ہیں! یہ سی اے ایس فلپائن مہم کے کچھ حیران کن ہیں اور مجھے لگتا ہے کہ میں نے ان کے نام تلاش کر لیے ہیں۔. اگر آپ بہتر جانتے ہیں۔, براہ کرم مجھے درست کریں۔.
 پارسا درما (Limacodidae)
 Parotis marginata (Crambidae)
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, ستمبر 4th پر, 2011  Plebejus سیموئلز
ہم سب اس دن آتے دیکھا, تیتلیوں کی تعداد میں اضافہ, دن وہ ہم پر انتقام لے جائے گا. وہ مالز کے لئے مسمار شدہ اور اضافی پانی کے ساتھ آلودہ کر رہے ہیں اب نہیں وہ خاموشی ان کی رہائش گاہ کے ارد گرد اڑ جائے گا. One particularly angry Karner Blue has submitted a letter to the Onion warning us that our time is about up. Endangered little Lycaenidae will join hands and come after us some quiet night while we’re asleep in our beds. We at the Lepidopterists’ Society have even made their list for failing to take action. Together we should act before it is too late – let us preemptively strike before the rise of the blues. Save your families! Burn those styrofoam containers, pave the prairies, drive your off-road vehicles and take a stand against these fluttering fanatics!
(or we could just save them…)
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on August 31st, 2011 There has been a continuing discussion over the last few years of why so few women remain in science. While I’m not going to dive into that topic here, you can find great discussions یہاں, یہاں, یہاں اور یہاں. I don’t however think anyone argues about why women don’t enter science in the first place, especially when you see things like this. Way to print that soul crushing stereotype right on the front of your daughters shirt, JCPenny.
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