Arizona takip

Harita /% Haziran güncellendi 20, 6pm.

Haritalar ve çevreleme yüzdeleri Güncellemeler benim önceki mesaja yapılmıştır. İşte SE Arizona yanan 4. yangın haritası, the Monument fire. Bu sadece bir tanesidir 10% 17% 15% 27% contained and is burning in the southern end of the Huachuca Mountains into Mexico. I also just received the sad news that the home of Noel McFarland has been claimed by the fire. Noel is a well known and respected entomologist who has made a massive impact in the moth field. While I don’t have the full details (and I don’t believe anyone has been injured by this blaze); it is likely that his landmark collection of hundreds of thousands of Lepidoptera has been lost. I wish Noel the best of luck, and can only hope the loss was not total.

 

 

Fire Arizona

Haritalar / çevreleme % güncellendi: 16 Haziran

Temmuz yaklaşırken ben lepidopteristler Pasifik Kıyısı toplantısı için sabırsızlanıyoruz olmak’ Toplum. Bu yıl Prescott Arizona gerçekleşecek, hakkında 2 kuzey Phoenix saatleri. And as of this moment it is one of the few places in Arizona değil on fire. I’m sure you have all heard of the massive fires right now, but here is an update from a slightly biological standpoint. Most importantly we should all be thankful for the firefighters risking their lives to battle these wildfires.

For some reason I couldn’t link to the interactive maps directly from the InciWeb site, but please follow the links to explore further. While there are good interactive maps of these fires on Google Maps, they are a few days old. Below are screen-captures of maps less than 12 hours old.


Ateş 1: The biggest one, The Wallow Fire olduğunu 20% 29% contained, human caused and has been burning for over 15 günler. I had been hoping to go collecting around the town of Greer and Alpine, but both have fire quickly encroaching. Arizona'nın Beyaz Dağlar bölgesi, güney çöl türleri ile Rocky Mountain türleri arasında büyüleyici bir karışım bölgesidir. – burada bulmayı umduğum nadir güve, Alexicles aspersa, muhtemelen bu yıl yine benden kaçacak.

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Bu al, omurgalılar!

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Ben böcekleri ve diğer çevirir bazen kendi menüsünde omurgalıların var bir süredir tanıyorum, ama gerçekten onlar bastırmak olabilecek bir hayvanın ne kadar büyük olduğunu bilmiyordum! Garip mantis bir sinek kuşu kapmak bile aşağıda gösterildiği gibi boyut farkı kadar önemli değildir. Bu etkileyici video kısa süre önce ücretsiz çevrimiçi olarak yayınlandı. dergi Zookey'leri.

 

İşte kağıttan rakamlardan biri, birden fazla Amfibi türüyle beslenen daha fazla böceği gösteren!

 

 

 

gil bilge, Avital Gasit (2011). Amfibilerin İsrail'in orta kıyı ovasında bulunan Epomis cinsi karabid böcekleri tarafından avlanması hayvan anahtarları, 100, 181-191 : DOI:10.3897/hayvan anahtarları.100.1526

Pazartesi Güve

Whoops, it’s almost Tuesday! Above is Schinia ligeae (Noctuidae) resting on its host plant Xylorhiza tortifolia, the Mojave Aster. I photographed this about three weeks ago outside the town of Big Pine, Kaliforniya. The asters were thick in the valleys below the snow capped Sierra, and the moths were abundant. Somehow these medium-sized Schinia get away with being conspicuous and lazy, you don’t even need a net to collect them. Just walk up and tip them into a jarI guess the pressure to evolve a more cryptic or evasive behavior is lacking.

Speaking of conspicuously lazy, I have been gone for much of May and hence the lull in blogging. Now that the weddings and spring field season are over, I’ll be back at the desk and back to blogging!

The Arachnologists have landed

Tamam, not an insect...

 

For the next three weeks my colleagues from the Arachnology lab at the California Academy of Sciences are in the Philippines! (HAYIR, not jealous at all…) The trip is part of the CAS Hearst expedition, a massive effort spanning all of our research departments to survey the deep seas, shallow seas and terrestrial environment of Luzon. Dr. Charles Griswold brought two of his PhD studentsHannah Wood and Natalia Chousou Polydourito help collect spiders and insects. Particularly, I’m looking forward to the Lepidoptera that Natalia will be bringing back! (I gave her a quick course on field collecting moths). Sadly I’m not there to photograph and collect this diversity myself; but we can all watch enviously as the teams post updates on their progress over the next month on the expedition blog. There are already lots of great entries and images from the aquatic peoplestay tuned for the insects.

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Genius of the Press XVIII

 

Who can tell me what’s wrong below? Not only is it the obvious photo problem, but the author of the article takes some logical leaps to support his premise. Who can tell me what his logical fallacies are? I won’t link to the entire article quite yet because a well known Lepidopterist has already commentedso resist googling the article for the easy answer.

 

Mecoptera of North America

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New to the web this week is an excellent resource on the Mecoptera of North America. Dr. Norm Penny has put together an illustrated guide to all the North American species with habitus and genitalia images. While not very diverse, the Mecoptera prove to be an enigmatic and fascinating group. Take a moment to explore the site and identify your specimens!

Misyon Mavi Kelebek

 

Erkek - Marin Headlands

Like so many other urban animals, the Mission Blue Butterfly (Plebejus icarioides missionensis) is one that is gravely imperiled. This small blue lives in tiny fragments of habitat alongside multi-million dollar development in and around the San Francisco Bay. A century ago this butterfly was already starting to decline, with hundreds of acres of beautiful seaside morphing into sprawl. Today the coastal sage scrub has nearly vanished and what little remains is infested with invasive plants and animals.

The Mission Blue was one of the first animals listed on the Endangered Species Act, acchieving offical protection in 1976. Efforts over the last few years have focused on restoring the habitat and the blue within itwith limited success. Before 2009 the last blue seen within the city limits was on Twin Peaks in 1997 (and possibly the 1970’s before that). Today the SF Recreation and Parks Department along with Bay Nature has somewhat re-established the Mission Blue on Twin Peaks from healthier populations in the Marin Headlands and San Bruno Mountain (the only other locations the butterfly is known from). I believe last year they had around 30 individuals flying on Twin Peaks. This year the numbers are down, but on Friday I found three females ovipositing on lupinewhile these females were probably transplanted a few weeks ago, it is hope for the future. Unfortunately the only males I saw were up in the Marin Headlandsand hopefully males were seen on Twin Peaks this year (pending 2011 data).

Not surprisingly, it turns out that reintroducing a species is a complicated game. The Mission Blue utilizes three host lupine species, Lupinus albifrons, formosus and variicolor. Yet maintaining these native species amongst the invasives requires radical measures including heavily applications of herbicides (against fennel, pampas grass and french broombut including 136 other invasive plants (Marin Flora)). It is unknown what effect the herbicides have on developing larvae (only 17% success from egg to caterpillar) or what it does to native ant populations that tend the caterpillars of the blue. Without native ants the caterpillars are much more likely to be predated, but even native ants are falling to the invading hoards of Argentine ants. And yet another key player is a newly found fungus that is killing lupine plantsdevastating butterfly numbers in 2010.

If you compare this subspecies to other members within the icarioides complex there is a striking difference in abundance. Plebejus i. moroensis from the central coast is an incredibly abundant butterfly within good habitat. It is highly restricted, but not facing nearly the difficulties the Mission Blue is. I hold out hope for one of our last San Francisco bluesif the invasive species can be controlledit won’t go the way of the Xerces.

Relocated kadın - Twin Peaks SF

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Growing Pains

Sorry for the weird downtime over the last two daysthe Southern Fried Network has been experiencing wonderful growth that has severely taxed our servers. This high traffic happened to correspond with a move of our physical servers the host was undertaking. The result was corrupted files that ended with our account placed on suspension.

Problem fixed! Pages back up, account upgraded, things should be running faster than ever. I’m still having problems resolving my pagesyou might notice some 404 errors until I figure out what’s going on with those

Pazar Güvesi

 

Everyone is familiar with the famous death’s head hawkmoth, but I think it’s a shame we have popularized such a grim character. Above is a much more cheery Neotropical Arctiinae from French Guiana that looks like it’s sporting a clown face. Sadly this isn’t my photograph, but you should take a moment to explore Les Lépidoptéristes de France website. Their photos from their annual expeditions makes me jealous!