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! Dobre, check out the article from the latest edition of Nature titled “A World Without Mosquitoes“. I originally came . . . → Čítajte viac: Pointless news, this time from Nature
 4 komentáre - (komentáre sú uzavreté)  Entomológia, Skepticizmus  Entomológia, Zdravie, Malaria, Media, Mosquitos, Skepticizmus OK, maybe not. 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 a pop for “insect spreading classes”. I wonder how many really show up to the monthly class? This just in, Chris Grinter is offering an insect spreading . . . → Čítajte viac: I should start charging Zdieľať tento!Just about time for another volume of Genius of the Press. Who will be first to spot the error here? Pripusťme, the information section of the california flat rate moving website is not exactly a source of top notch journalism… Zdieľať tento!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 . . . → Čítajte viac: This time, with a moth Zdieľať tento!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 . . . → Čítajte viac: The only bar in town Zdieľať tento!Pred niekoľkými mesiacmi som bol vonku zberu v západnej Arizone a nedokázal dotiahnuť do konca so všetkými obrázkami a aktualizácií na tejto ceste. Dobre, to bol úspech a stojí míle sa tam dostať! Hľadal som na Crambid mora v horách KOFA National Wildlife Refuge (Zvláštne poďakovanie . . . → Čítajte viac: Západné Arizona Zdieľať tento!V priebehu budúceho týždňa a pol budem riadiť až do štátu Washington na ročné lepidopterologů’ Spoločnosť stretnutie. Nachádza sa v turistickej pasci mesta Leavenworth, čo je “Bavorskej themed” Diorama pohľadnice a zanesenie obchodov. Aj keď som nikdy úplne pochopiť príťažlivosť tematických miest, to je niečo, čo . . . → Čítajte viac: Na ceste znova Zdieľať tento!And now for the even more infrequently reoccurring series, vox populi! For those without scarring high school memories of latin class (through no fault of my teacher) I’ll bring you up to speed – the title roughly translates to “voice of the people”. Here is another old e-mail that I’ve been saving. It is a . . . → Čítajte viac: Vox Populi, volume II Zdieľať tento!Welcome to volume eight of the inconsistently reoccurring series, Genius z tlače. 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). . . . → Čítajte viac: Genius of the Press VIII Zdieľať tento! 5 komentáre - (komentáre sú uzavreté) Entomológia Motýle, Zachovanie, Súťaž, Entomológia, Lepidoptera, Media
Welcome to The Moth and Me #12, and my first blog carnival. Despite blogging for a few months I have yet to take a look back and reflect on exactly how I became enamored with lepidoptera in the first place. Remembering a time or location where this happened is impossible, and like . . . → Čítajte viac: Moth and Me #12 Zdieľať tento! 10 komentáre - (komentáre sú uzavreté) Entomológia Carnival, Entomológia, Lepidoptera, Mory, Moth and Me |
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