在七月接近我期待的太平洋海岸上的鱗翅目’ 社會. 這今年,它會採取的地方在Prescott亞利桑那州的有最良好的中, 關於 2 小時鳳凰城北部. And as of this moment it is one of the few places in Arizona不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.
火 1:The biggest one, The Wallow Fire 是 20% 29% contained, human caused and has been burning for over 15 天. I had been hoping to go collecting around the town of Greer and Alpine, but both have fire quickly encroaching. The White Mountains region of Arizona is a fascinating blend zone between southern desert species and Rocky Mountain ones – the rare moth I was hoping to find here, Alexicles aspersa, will likely evade me yet again this year.
在接下來的三個星期我的同事從蛛形實驗室在加州科學院是在菲律賓! (沒有, 不嫉妒可言…) 此行是CAS赫斯特遠征的一部分, a massive effort spanning all of our research departments to survey the deep seas, shallow seas and terrestrial environment of Luzon. 博士. Charles Griswold brought two of his PhD students – Hannah Wood and Natalia Chousou Polydouri – to 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 monthon the expedition blog. There are already lots of great entries and images from the aquatic people – stay tuned for the insects.
誰可以告訴我什麼是錯的下面? 它不僅是明顯的照片問題, 但文章的作者需要一些邏輯的飛躍,以支持他的前提. 誰可以告訴我他的邏輯謬誤是什麼? I won’t link to the entire article quite yet because a well known Lepidopterist has already commented – so resist googling the article for the easy answer.
Sorry for the weird downtime over the last two days – the 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 pages – you might notice some 404 errors until I figure out what’s going on with those…