Mecoptera Amerika Utara

Merope umbi

New to the web this week is an excellent resource on the Mecoptera of North America. dr. Norma Penny telah mengumpulkan sebuah panduan ilustrasi untuk semua spesies Amerika Utara dengan habitus dan alat kelamin gambar. Meskipun tidak sangat beragam, yang Mecoptera membuktikan menjadi misterius dan menarik . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Mecoptera Amerika Utara

Biru Oak Ranch Cadangan

Beberapa minggu yang lalu saya diundang untuk bergabung dengan entomologi kelas Berkeley di lapangan untuk akhir pekan. Tujuan kami adalah Blue Oak Ranch Cadangan; salah satu cadangan terbaru ke University of California sistem terletak tepat di luar San Jose di Gunung Hamilton (peta di bawah). Itu adalah . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Biru Oak Ranch Cadangan

Mystery Revelaed

Oke – a few apologies for not having full images *yet* of the larvae in question (I will in a few days!). Over the weekend I was out with a group of Berkeley students on Mount Hamilton and PhD candidate Meghan Culpepper collected a few species of Scaphinotus and a some larvae! So the specimen . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Mystery Revelaed

Monday mystery

 

Came across this guy while out in the field the other day, what’s going on here? Points awarded for Order/Family/Genusbut even experts in this group can’t figure out the species quite yet.

 

(everyone in the field with me should hold . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Monday mystery

Lalat bisa jadi (benar-benar) Dingin

Lasia klettii: Photos by April Nobile, CAS

For the most part flies are not an insect I get overly excited about. Namun, the enigmatic family Acroceridae are the exception. I’ll start sharing some interesting genera from time to timethe morphology of the family is amazingly diverse. Most of my days . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Lalat bisa jadi (benar-benar) Dingin

Jenius Pers XVII

Usually I come across horrible entomology articles regularly enough that I save a backlog for future series. This hasn’t been the case over the last few weeks, I haven’t come across the normal array of terrible media crud. Maybe I just get jaded and stop looking as carefullybut this week I even came . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Jenius Pers XVII

The Moth adalah pergi ke Catalina

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Besok pagi aku pergi untuk 10 hari mengumpulkan perjalanan ke Catalina Island. Aku sudah cukup beruntung diundang untuk bergabung Dr. Jerry Powell dari UC Berkeley pada survei ngengat, dan ini akan menjadi pertama kalinya saya ke salah satu pulau. . . . → Baca selengkapnya: The Moth adalah pergi ke Catalina

Ngengat terkecil

The family Nepticulidae hold some of the smallest moths known, ranging from 3-8mm wing-tip to wing-tip. For a comparison I have imaged two moths above: the largest knownCoscinocera hercules that tips the scales at nearly 9 inci, and one of the smallest (yes that tiny little speck . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Ngengat terkecil

Setahun dalam Ulasan

Ups, looks like I missed my first ‘blogoversary’! Monday the 21st was the one year turning point for my blog; and I’m incredibly happy to have spent the last year sharing some of my ramblings with all of you. I’ve somewhat lost track of how many hits I’ve had since I moved everything . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Setahun dalam Ulasan

Genius of the Press XVI

A softball for this GOP challenge. This image comes care of the Victoria Advocate (TX paper) – with a poorly written article about butterflies. This image flop is pretty easy, but for extra points who can tell me what else is incorrect in the text?

 

. . . → Baca selengkapnya: Genius of the Press XVI