seksi, Botol Bir Seksi

Yang 2011 Ig Nobel ceremony took place yesterday at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. Anugerah ini ditaja oleh Improbable Research, sebuah organisasi yang mengumpulkan menarik, ganjil, dan kertas penyelidikan kelakar secara terang-terangan yang memenangi idea bahawa tidak semua sains membosankan. Among this year’s distinguished recipients was fellow entomologist and blogger David Rentz, who received the . . . → Baca Lebih: seksi, Botol Bir Seksi

Net-Winged Beetle

Kumbang Lycidae yang besar dan menarik ini (selada Fernandez) banyak terdapat di tenggara Arizona beberapa minggu lalu. Sentiasa terbang di antara bunga dan pasir lembap yang mereka buat untuk sasaran fotografi yang mudah. Saya fikir sendiri “inilah peluang hebat untuk menangkap kumbang berlepas!”.

Tunggu dulu…

selada Fernandez (Lycidae)

. . . → Baca Lebih: Net-Winged Beetle

Ambil yang, vertebrata!

I’ve known for a while that beetles and other inverts occasionally have vertebrates on their menu, but I didn’t really know how large of an animal they could subdue! Even when the odd mantis grabs a hummingbird the size difference is not as substantial as is shown below. This impressive video was . . . → Baca Lebih: Ambil yang, vertebrata!

Blue Oak Ranch Rizab

Beberapa minggu yang lalu, saya telah dijemput untuk menyertai kelas entomologi Berkeley di lapangan untuk hujung minggu. Our destination was the Blue Oak Ranch Reserve; salah satu cadangan terbaru ke Universiti California sistem yang terletak hanya di luar San Jose di Gunung Hamilton (peta di bawah). It was a . . . → Baca Lebih: Blue Oak Ranch Rizab

Misteri Revelaed

okey – a few apologies for not having full images *yet* of the larvae in question (I will in a few days!). Over the weekend I was out with a group of Berkeley students on Mount Hamilton and PhD candidate Meghan Culpepper collected a few species of Scaphinotus and a some larvae! So the specimen . . . → Baca Lebih: Misteri Revelaed

Monster Muppet

I stumbled upon (not on stumbleupon) these colored SEM images on the Telegraph webpage today. I especially love this image of a Calliphoridae larva (Protophormia sp.) that seems more out of a C-rated science fiction movie than nature. It reminds me of both a freakish Star Wars character and a Muppet at the same . . . → Baca Lebih: Monster Muppet

Syukurlah, I’m not a beetle

Because I would have been subjected to this. Talk about animal cruelty! okey, just kidding, but this story is a bit ridiculous. The article states that the scientists had used the voice of Limbaugh because it wasreadily available”, not because they hated him. Well that turns out not to be true, they chose Rush . . . → Baca Lebih: Syukurlah, I’m not a beetle