nondo Manukato

Kutoka peremende Pericopinae. Mimi kumbukumbu video hii kwenye tovuti ya kaskazini mwa Costa Rica miaka michache iliyopita. Nilipofika chini kuchukua nondo hii, ilikuwa ni vigumu kuepuka noticing tabia. nondo, Chetone ngulosa (Erebidae: Pericopina) ((kutumika kwa kuwa Arctiidae)), ina kawaida ya kujihami utaratibu wa kundi hili – they . . . → Soma Zaidi: nondo Manukato

Jamii tahadhari

Recently came across some ridiculously horrible taxonomy from China (.pdf). If you scroll down a bit you can see the english translation. At first glance this looks like a standard taxonomy paper with bare-bones species descriptions. You might even think to yourself, “huh, wonder why they are describing species from only one specimen”. Not the . . . → Soma Zaidi: Jamii tahadhari

Butterfly ya wiki

Nimekuwa mzembe kidogo katika kutuma changamoto za mara kwa mara, kwa hivyo nitajaribu kuchukua mwendo. Nani anaweza kuniambia chochote kuhusu kipepeo huyu? Unayopata zaidi ni kwamba inatoka nusu ya Magharibi ya Amerika. Mikopo kwa familia, genus or species and ridiculous credit for subspecies and where it is . . . → Soma Zaidi: Butterfly ya wiki

Mbali na vichwa vyao!

(picha mikopo)

monarchs wameanza spring uhamiaji wao kaskazini na unaweza hata kuona moja hivi karibuni (si kusisimua kama wewe kuishi katika FL au HI ambapo kuna wakazi mwaka mzima, au katika CA ambapo kuna tofauti matangazo overwintering). Taarifa kutoka maeneo yao ya majira ya baridi katika Mexico Hata hivyo ni mabaya; na uwezekano wa chini . . . → Soma Zaidi: Mbali na vichwa vyao!

Genius wa vyombo vya habari, sehemu ya II

Published in the Santa Barbara News Press, Winter 2009. Who can tell me what’s wrong with these captions?

Page scan credit: Stuart Wilson.

Butterfly ya wiki

Sio kipepeo wa kawaida – lakini huu ni muundo wa kukunja wa protini kutoka kwa homa ya hemorrhagic ya Amerika Kusini – virusi vya Machupo. The article was found on Science Daily. Kufanana kwa kushangaza na kipepeo, labda hata Hesperiidae (photo from Butterflies of America).

. . . → Soma Zaidi: Butterfly ya wiki

Stupid buttefly of the week

Know this butterfly? It’s OK, no one really does. It is in the genus Apodemia (Riodinidae), but the taxonomy of this group is a disasterand don’t even get me started on the subspecies. This specimen was photographed in September, meaning it is most likely to be Apodemia mormo (mormo) based . . . → Soma Zaidi: Stupid buttefly of the week

vipepeo vya kupita muda

Licha ya kutopendezwa sana na vipepeo, wao ni wazuri kutazama. Hapa kuna video nzuri sana ya mvulana ninayemfahamu huko Kusini mwa CA. Video zake za mzunguko wa maisha wa lepidoptera ni za kuvutia sana, na huyu hasa ni mrembo. Ikiwa unakata karibu 3:00 katika, utaona kadhaa . . . → Soma Zaidi: vipepeo vya kupita muda