Fresh off the desk of the Nature News is a feature pondering a world without mosquitos (or -toes). How is this news? Perhaps there is some new vector control we all need to hear about! Godt, check out the article from the latest edition of Nature titled “A World Without Mosquitoes“. I originally came . . . → Læs mere: Meningsløst nyheder, denne gang fra natur
 4 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket)  Entomologi, Skepsis  Entomologi, Sundhed, Malaria, Medier, Mosquitos, Skepsis Okay, måske ikke. But I did get a little jealous when I came across this article where I discovered a local San Francisco artist who is charging $60 en pop til “insekt sprede klasser”. Jeg spekulerer på, hvor mange virkelig at vise op til den månedlige klasse? Dette blot i, Chris Grinter is offering an insect spreading . . . → Læs mere: Jeg skal starte opladningen Del dette!Just about time for another volume of Genius of the Press. Who will be first to spot the error here? Indrømmet, the information section of the california flat rate moving website is not exactly a source of top notch journalism… Del dette!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 . . . → Læs mere: This time, with a moth Del dette!In eastern Lassen county, on the vast high juniper hills of the California-Nevada border, there are herds of “wild” horses, sheep and cattle. Par for the course, the only flowering plant around was horehound (Marrubium vulgare). Despite the non-native flora and (semi)mega-fauna, the insects were still at home. Being the only nectar source, the small . . . → Læs mere: Den eneste bar i byen Del dette!A few months ago I was out collecting in western Arizona and failed to follow through with any images or updates on that trip. Godt, it was a success and well worth the miles to get there! I was searching for a Crambid moth in the mountains of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge (special thanks . . . → Læs mere: Vestlige Arizona Del dette!Over the next week and a half I’ll be driving up to Washington state for the annual Lepidopterists’ Society meeting. It is located in the tourist-trap town of Leavenworth, which is a “Bavarian themed” diorama of postcard and clog shops. While I can never quite understand the appeal of themed towns, it is something . . . → Læs mere: På vejen igen Del dette!Og nu til den endnu sjældnere gentagende serie, Folkets stemme! For dem uden arring af gymnasieminder fra latinklassen (uden min lærers skyld) Jeg bringer dig op i fart – titlen svarer nogenlunde til “folkets stemme”. Her er en anden gammel e-mail, som jeg har gemt. Det er en . . . → Læs mere: Vox populi, bind II Del dette!Welcome to volume eight of the inconsistently reoccurring series, Genius Press. 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). . . . → Læs mere: Genius Press VIII Del dette! 5 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket) Entomologi Sommerfugle, Bevarelse, Konkurrence, Entomologi, Lepidoptera, Medier
Velkommen til The Moth and Me #12, og mit første blogkarneval. På trods af at jeg har blogget i et par måneder, har jeg endnu ikke taget et kig tilbage og reflekteret over, præcis hvordan jeg blev forelsket i lepidoptera i første omgang. Det er umuligt at huske et tidspunkt eller et sted, hvor dette skete, and like . . . → Læs mere: The Moth og Me #12 Del dette! 10 kommentarer - (Kommentarer er lukket) Entomologi Karneval, Entomologi, Lepidoptera, Møl, The Moth og Me |
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