Un investigador de la papallona Molt llúpol

El Llúpol Azure (Celastrina Humulus) es troba un blau diminut i poc comú en la gamma davantera de les Rocoses aquí a Colorado. La seva planta hoste és el salt silvestre: Humulus lupulus, varietats de la qual, per descomptat, un ingredient fonamental en la cervesa! D'aquí a una o dues setmanes estaré al camp mirant . . . → Llegir més: Un investigador de la papallona Molt llúpol

Sexy, Sexy ampolles de cervesa

El 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 . . . → Llegir més: Sexy, Sexy ampolles de cervesa

Papallones per a la cervesa

(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 terme . . . → Llegir més: Papallones per a la cervesa