Pe naveta mea de zi cu zi înapoi la Berkeley, Am observat acest lucru (scuze pentru imaginea cruddy). De fapt, Am văzut o mână de aceste pop-up în jurul San Francisco și-l face să vreau să-mi smulg părul de fiecare dată. Pentru cei care sunt noi la blog-ul meu, acest lucru se duce înapoi la Genius meu de . . . → Citeste mai mult: Pur și simplu nu mă va lăsa în pace
 7 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise)  Entomologie  Bad Știință, Fluturi, Entomologie, Mimetism, Taxonomie Fail While I work on a more substantial post, you can name this butterfly – and the plant should be pretty easy too. Extra bonus if you can guess the county (state won’t be too impressive) in which I took this photo. This was pre-DSLR, but my old beat up canon point-and-shoot did manage to get . . . → Citeste mai mult: Mid-week Mystery Trimiteți acest! 8 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, Concurs, Entomologie, lepidoptere, Plants For regular readers of my blog you might already know my stance on the monarch, but catch up here if you’d like to. Yesterday I came across this article in the LA times – regarding the overwintering colonies of monarchs in Pacific Grove, CA. Out here, west of the continental divide, there are quite a . . . → Citeste mai mult: Monarch Madness Trimiteți acest! 4 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, Conservare, Speciile invazive, lepidoptere, Monarchs 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. Trimiteți acest! 6 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, Colectare, Umor, lepidoptere, Mass-media Here is a hill-topping male Papilio zeliacon, sau anason rândunicii. Acest fluture este larg răspândită în statele din Pacific de Vest și este, probabil, mult mai frecvent decat a fost odata. După introducerea de fenicul (Foeniculum vulgare), și scape ulterior de horticultură, rândunicii anason apucat ca un fluture comun California. Perhaps before this . . . → Citeste mai mult: porno fluture Trimiteți acest! 5 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, Conservare, Entomologie, Specie dispărută, lepidoptere 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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: This time, with a moth Trimiteți acest! 3 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, ADN-ul, Entomologie, lepidoptere, Molii 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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: The only bar in town Trimiteți acest! 6 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, Conservare, Entomologie, lepidoptere Welcome to volume eight of the inconsistently reoccurring series, Genius a presei. 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). . . . → Citeste mai mult: Genius of the Press VIII Trimiteți acest! 5 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, Conservare, Concurs, Entomologie, lepidoptere, Mass-media
A once in a lifetime occurrence, a bilateral gynandromorph. Pe scurt, 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. eu . . . → Citeste mai mult: An Awesome Little Butterfly Trimiteți acest!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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: The Dangerous Life of a Lepidopterist Trimiteți acest! |
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