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 . . . → Preberite več: Sexy, Sexy Beer Bottles
 4 Komentarji - (Komentarji so zaprti)  Entomologija  Avstralija, Pivo, Hrošči, Vedenje, Coleoptera, Entomologija, humor Te velike in zanimive Lycidae hrošči (Lycus fernandezi) je bilo v izobilju v jugovzhodni Arizoni pred nekaj tedni. Nenehno, ki leti med cvetje in vlažnem pesku so bili zaradi česar za enostavno fotografiranje ciljev. Pomislil sem “Tukaj je odlična priložnost, da ujeti hrošča vzletanje!”. Počakaj… Lycus fernandezi (Lycidae) . . . → Preberite več: Net-Winged Beetle Skupna raba tega! 2 Komentarji - (Komentarji so zaprti) Entomologija Arizona, Hrošči, Coleoptera, Entomologija, Fotografija 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 . . . → Preberite več: Take that, vertebrates! Skupna raba tega! 7 Komentarji - (Komentarji so zaprti) Entomologija Hrošči, Entomologija, Mediji, Non-Žuželke, Predation Pred nekaj tedni sem bil povabljen, da se pridružijo Berkeley entomologijo razred v polju za vikend. Naš cilj je bil Blue Oak Ranch Reserve; ena od najnovejših rezerv v sistemu Univerze v Kaliforniji, ki se nahajajo tik izven San Jose na gori Hamilton (zemljevid spodaj). Bil je . . . → Preberite več: Modra Hrast Ranch Reserve Skupna raba tega! Komentarji so zaprti Entomologija Hrošči, Berkeley, Entomologija, Molji, Fotografija, Pajki, University of California v redu – 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 . . . → Preberite več: Mystery Revelaed Skupna raba tega! En komentar - (Komentarji so zaprti) Entomologija Hrošči, Coleoptera, Tekmovanje, Entomologija, Scaphinotus, Snail, Vrste 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 . . . → Preberite več: Muppet Monsters Skupna raba tega!Because I would have been subjected to this. Talk about animal cruelty! v redu, just kidding, but this story is a bit ridiculous. The article states that the scientists had used the voice of Limbaugh because it was “readily available”, not because they hated him. Well that turns out not to be true, they chose Rush . . . → Preberite več: na srečo, I’m not a beetle Skupna raba tega! |
Skepticizem |
