De Chris Grinter, data de 13 mai, 2013% Hop Azure (Celastrina humulus) este un albastru diminutiv și mai puțin frecvente găsite pe gama fata de Rockies aici, în Colorado. Fabrica de gazdă este hameiul sălbatic: Humulus lupulus, soiuri de care sunt, desigur, un ingredient critic în bere! In a week or two I’ll be out in the field looking to . . . → Citeste mai mult: Un cercetător Butterfly foarte Hoppy
De Chris Grinter, pe 07 februarie, 2013% Povestea de mai multe fluturi din San Francisco sunt bine cunoscute și deprimant. Zona a fost puternic afectată de dezvoltare umană de peste două secole și este de origine infam la primul exemplu cunoscut de un fluture american dispărut, albastru Xerces. În timp ce alte fluturi sunt agățat pe, sau obținerea de ajutor să stea pe . . . → Citeste mai mult: Când Taxonomie face o specii mai puțin critic pe cale de dispariție
De Chris Grinter, pe 1 decembrie, 2011% The first annual National Moth Week will be this summer, Iulie 23-29, 2012! Acesta este primul eveniment de acest gen din Statele Unite ale Americii (it has been popular in the UK for quite some time) și este o încercare de a încuraja oamenii să se îndrepte în afara lor și de a explora fauna adesea trecute cu vederea molie. The US has . . . → Citeste mai mult: Săptămâna Națională Moth 2012
De Chris Grinter, pe 22 noiembrie, 2011% Fellow network blogger David Shiffman is in the final laps of a $10,000 Bursa provocare. The money will not only support David’s blogging at Southern Fried Science, dar cercetarea conservării rechin (inclusiv un concurs pentru a numi rechin va eticheta cu fonduri). Take a moment and vote for him, o dată la fiecare 24 oră! . . . → Citeste mai mult: Vot pentru Conservarea Shark!
De Chris Grinter, pe 3 noiembrie, 2011% Asta e modul în care se spune, dreapta? Two weeks ago I participated in the 5th annual National Geographic BioBlitz over in Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona. It was a great excuse to get back into the field and it was the first time I collected Arizona in the fall. Temps were still pushing the mid . . . → Citeste mai mult: Ocupat ca un fluture de noapte
De Chris Grinter, on September 4th, 2011% Plebejus samuelis
We all saw this day coming, the rise of the butterflies, the day they will take vengeance on us. No longer will they passively fly around their habitats as they are bulldozed for malls and polluted with runoff. One particularly angry Karner Blue has submitted a letter to . . . → Citeste mai mult: Butterfly Vengeance
De Chris Grinter, pe 10 august, 2011% Fresh off the presses, the Miami Blue Butterfly (MBB) is now listed as federally endangered by act of an emergency provision. Huzzah! (dreapta?)
Miami Blue Butterfly from Butterflies of America
My first thought was “wait, wasn’t this already endangered?”. Da, turns out the MBB has been state-endangered since 2002 after a previous emergency . . . → Citeste mai mult: NABA Turns Fish and Wildlife into Brainless Zombies
De Chris Grinter, on June 14th, 2011% Maps/containment % updated: 16 Iunie
As July approaches I being to look forward to the Pacific Coast meeting of the Lepidopterists’ Societate. This year it will take place in Prescott Arizona, despre 2 hours north of Phoenix. And as of this moment it is one of the few places in Arizona not on fire. . . . → Citeste mai mult: Arizona on Fire
De Chris Grinter, on May 2nd, 2011%
Masculin – Marin Headlands
Like so many other urban animals, the Mission Blue Butterfly (Plebejus icarioides missionensis) is one that is gravely imperiled. This small blue lives in tiny fragments of habitat alongside multi-million dollar development in and around the San Francisco Bay. A century ago this butterfly . . . → Citeste mai mult: Fluturele albastru de misiune
De Chris Grinter, on April 19th, 2011%
Source: Wikipedia
It turns out that Richard Branson has a new idea; to save the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) by importing them to his private British Virgin Island. As the article points out Branson spent millions of pounds and years of effort to turn the island into “the most ecologically . . . → Citeste mai mult: Richard Branson is an Idiot
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