Chris Grinter, 12. oktobra, 2010% Po mojem dnevno vozi nazaj v Berkeley, To sem opazila (Opravičilo za Cruddy slike). Dejansko, Videl sem peščica teh pop up okrog San Franciscu in zaradi tega želim trgati moje lase ven vsakič. Za tiste, ki so novi na moj blog, To sega nazaj do mojega genij . . . → Preberite več: To me ne bo pustil pri miru
Chris Grinter, on September 8th, 2010% 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 . . . → Preberite več: Mid-week Mystery
Chris Grinter, na 6. september, 2010% Za redne bralce mojega bloga morda že poznate moje stališče do monarha, but catch up here if you’d like to. Yesterday I came across this article in the LA times – glede prezimovanja kolonij monarhov v Pacific Groveju, CA. Tu zunaj, zahodno od celinske ločnice, there are quite a . . . → Preberite več: Monarhova norost
Chris Grinter, on August 9th, 2010% 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.
Chris Grinter, 6. avgusta, 2010%
Here is a hill-topping male Papilio zeliacon, ali janežev lastov rep. Ta metulj je zelo razširjen v državah zahodnega Pacifika in je verjetno veliko bolj pogost kot nekoč. Po uvedbi komarčka (Foeniculum vulgare), in kasnejši pobeg iz vrtnarstva, janeževa lastovka se je uveljavila kot navaden kalifornijski metulj. Perhaps before this . . . → Preberite več: Pornografija z metulji
Chris Grinter, on July 26th, 2010% 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 . . . → Preberite več: Tokrat, z molj
Chris Grinter, na 24. julij, 2010% V vzhodni Lassen občine, na prostrane visoke brinovimi hribih meji California, Nevada, obstajajo črede “wild” konji, ovce in govedo. Par za tečaj, le cvetoče rastline okoli bil lahkotnico (Marrubium vulgare). Kljub tujerodnih rastlinskih in (semi)mega-favna, žuželke so bile še vedno doma. Ker je edini vir nektarja, the small . . . → Preberite več: Samo bar v mestu
Chris Grinter, on June 26th, 2010% Welcome to volume eight of the inconsistently reoccurring series, Genij tiska. 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). . . . → Preberite več: Genius of the Press VIII
Chris Grinter, on May 24th, 2010%
A once in a lifetime occurrence, a bilateral gynandromorph. Na kratko, 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. I . . . → Preberite več: Awesome Malo Butterfly
Chris Grinter, on May 18th, 2010% 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 . . . → Preberite več: The Dangerous Life of a Lepidopterist
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