På min daglige pendling tilbage til Berkeley, Jeg har opdaget dette (undskyld for det ulækre billede). Faktisk, Jeg har set en håndfuld af disse dukke op omkring San Francisco, og det giver mig lyst til at rive mit hår af hver gang. Til dem der er nye på min blog, dette går tilbage til mit Geni af . . . → Læs mere: Det vil bare ikke lade mig være i fred
 7 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket)  Entomologi  Bad Science, Sommerfugle, Entomologi, Mimik, Taksonomi Fail Mens jeg arbejde på en mere omfattende indlæg, du kan navngive denne sommerfugl – og anlægget skal være temmelig nemt for. Ekstra bonus, hvis du kan gætte amtet (stat vil ikke være alt for imponerende) hvor jeg tog dette billede. Dette var præ-DSLR, but my old beat up canon point-and-shoot did manage to get . . . → Læs mere: Mid-ugers Mystery Del dette! 8 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket) Entomologi Sommerfugle, Konkurrence, Entomologi, Lepidoptera, Planter For regelmæssige læsere af min blog du måske allerede kender min holdning til monark, but catch up here if you’d like to. Yesterday I came across this article in the LA times – vedrørende overvintrende kolonier af monarker i Pacific Grove, Californien. Herude, vest for Continental Divide, there are quite a . . . → Læs mere: Monark galskab Del dette! 4 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket) Entomologi Sommerfugle, Bevarelse, Invasive arter, Lepidoptera, monarker This one is just too easy. The billboard is on I-35 south of Burleson, Texas. I don’t know the true provenance of this image, but it came my way from Omar Bocanegra via Mike Quinn on the Texas Lepidoptera list-serv. Del dette! 6 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket) Entomologi Sommerfugle, Indsamling, Humor, Lepidoptera, Medier Here is a hill-topping male Papilio zeliacon, eller anis svalehale. Denne sommerfugl er udbredt i de vestlige Stillehavsstater og er sandsynligvis meget mere almindelig, end den engang var. Efter indførelsen af fennikel (Daucus carota), og efterfølgende flugt fra havebrug, anis svalehale tog fat som en almindelig californisk sommerfugl. Perhaps before this . . . → Læs mere: Sommerfugleporno Del dette! 5 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket) Entomologi Sommerfugle, Bevarelse, Entomologi, Uddøde arter, Lepidoptera Here are a few more images from my recent northern road trip, this time from western Idaho. Right outside the town of New Meadows were fields of flowers thick with life. It was some of the best day collecting I’ve done in years, and fellow road tripper Peter Jump and I discovered this . . . → Læs mere: This time, with a moth Del dette!In eastern Lassen county, on the vast high juniper hills of the California-Nevada border, there are herds of “wild” horses, sheep and cattle. Par for the course, the only flowering plant around was horehound (Marrubium vulgare). Despite the non-native flora and (semi)mega-fauna, the insects were still at home. Being the only nectar source, the small . . . → Læs mere: Den eneste bar i byen Del dette!Welcome to volume eight of the inconsistently reoccurring series, Genius Press. I came across this article recently regarding an endemic Puerto Rican butterfly. Who can tell me exactly why this report is misleading? It may be a little trickier than the standard GOP (I suggest discarding any previously associated acronyms with those letters). . . . → Læs mere: Genius Press VIII Del dette! 5 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket) Entomologi Sommerfugle, Bevarelse, Konkurrence, Entomologi, Lepidoptera, Medier
A once in a lifetime occurrence, a bilateral gynandromorph. Kort, a glitch during cell differentiation creates asymmetrical chromosome patterns, which leads to asymmetrical sex expression in the adult insect. If you haven’t clicked the link above, do so, it’s an excellent description with some awesome photos. Back to the butterfly. Jeg . . . → Læs mere: An Awesome Little Butterfly Del dette!News in from India, a butterfly photographer has been kidnapped. A local park official who was visiting the north eastern province Arunachal Pradesh was taken at night by a gang of armed youth-rebels. Efforts to find him have been hampered by the weather and remote terrain. India has recently become one of the most difficult . . . → Læs mere: The Dangerous Life of a Lepidopterist Del dette! |
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