This time, with a moth

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 . . . → Leigh Nios mo: This time, with a moth

Off with their heads!

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The monarchs have started their spring migration north and you might even see one soon (not exciting if you live in FL or HI where there are year-round residents, or in CA where there are separate overwintering spots). Reports from their winter locations in Mexico however are dismal; with possibly the lowest . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Off with their heads!

Sad ach fíor

An trácht gairid faoi Linus Pauling agus Vitimín C a rinneadh liom thíos cuimhneamh físeán seo sa phost ar dtús feadh tamaill ó shin ag Pharyngula. Is é seo an Kary Mullis, ar na bacáin PCR, agus buaiteoir Duais Nobel. A aireagán a rinneadh go bunúsach anailís DNA agus is féidir. Ach cosúil le Pauling, Tá sé freisin go hiomlán agus go hiomlán cnónna. Má tá tú . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Sad ach fíor