The Hop Azure (Celastrina humulus) is a diminutive and uncommon blue found on the front range of the Rockies here in Colorado. Its host plant is the wild hop: Humulus lupulus, varieties of which are of course a critical ingredient in beer! In a week or two I’ll be out in the field looking to . . . → Read More: A Very Hoppy Butterfly Researcher
 2 comments - (Comments are closed)  Beer, Entomology  Beer, Butterflies, Colorado, Conservation, Entomology, Front Range, Hops, Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae The 2011 Ig Nobel ceremony took place yesterday at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The award is sponsored by Improbable Research, an organization that gathers fascinating, odd, and outright hilarious research papers that triumph the idea that not all science is boring. Among this year’s distinguished recipients was fellow entomologist and blogger David Rentz, who received the . . . → Read More: Sexy, Sexy Beer Bottles Share this! 4 comments - (Comments are closed) Entomology Australia, Beer, Beetles, Behavior, Coleoptera, Entomology, Humor (Credit: David Cappaert, Insectimages.org)
If you happen to be living out in Yolo, Solano or Sacramento counties you should head out with a net. Dr. Art Shaprio has offered for the 40th year his cabbage white butterfly competition. If you are the very first person to catch a cabbage white (Pieris rapae . . . → Read More: Butterflies for Beer Share this! 4 comments - (Comments are closed) Entomology Beer, Butterflies, Contest, Entomology, Lepidoptera, Pieris rapae, UC Davis |
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