mariposa de la semana

I’ve been a bit remiss at posting regular challenges, so I’ll try to pick up the pace. Who can tell me anything about this butterfly? The most you’re getting is that it is from the Western half of the US. Credit for family, genus or species and ridiculous credit for subspecies and where it is . . . → Leer más: mariposa de la semana

genio de la prensa, v. IV

Another installment of Genius of the Press, and perhaps a bit of a softball. (Yikes these are easy to find) Who can tell me whats wrong with this article?

Answer to last week’s Genius of the Press

For all those who abstained from voting (I want to assume some readers must have known the identity of our mystery caterpillar, but were too lazy to comment), here is the answer (after the break).

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genio de la prensa, v.III

Yet another installment of my favorite series, the genius of the press. This article comes from ABC news, who can identify this caterpillar? It is decidedly NOT a gypsy moth.

Fellow entomology blogger Myrmecos had a similar story last week.

The genius of the press

Came across this article today care of Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, which spurred the search for further information. Who can tell me what thoseflowersactually are? 10 points to the first to guess correctlyor maybe some awesome prize?

Gente mariposa OK, ¿quién soy yo?

Esta es una imagen antigua de la mina, así que no es perfecto. Si usted me puede decir esta mariposa con las especies se obtiene un alto y cinco. Si conoces la subespecie, Te voy a enviar un nuevo paquete de #3 pasadores de acero inoxidable! Sólo sugerencia: Es desde el oeste de EE.UU..

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