Skorpionmusės Šiaurės Amerikoje

Merope tuber

New to the web this week is an excellent resource on the Mecoptera of North America. dr. Norm Penny has put together an illustrated guide to all the North American species with habitus and genitalia images. While not very diverse, the Mecoptera prove to be an enigmatic and fascinating . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Skorpionmusės Šiaurės Amerikoje

Blue Oak Ranch draustinis

A few weeks ago I was invited to join a Berkeley entomology class out in the field for the weekend. Our destination was the Blue Oak Ranch Reserve; one of the newest reserves to the University of California system located just outside of San Jose on Mount Hamilton (map below). It was a . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Blue Oak Ranch draustinis

Paslaptis atskleista

Gerai – 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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Paslaptis atskleista

Pirmadienio paslaptis

 

Kitą dieną sutikau šį vaikiną lauke, kas čia vyksta? Taškai skiriami už ordiną / šeimą / gentį – tačiau net šios grupės ekspertai dar negali tiksliai išsiaiškinti rūšies.

 

(everyone in the field with me should hold . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Pirmadienio paslaptis

Musės gali būti (tikrai) Saunus

Lasia klettii: Nuotraukos April Nobile, CASE

Daugeliu atvejų musės nėra vabzdys, dėl kurio aš per daug jaudinuosi. Tačiau, mįslinga Acroceridae šeima yra išimtis. Kartkartėmis pradėsiu dalintis įdomiomis rūšimis – šeimos morfologija stebėtinai įvairi. Didžiąją dalį mano dienų . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Musės gali būti (tikrai) Saunus

Genius of the Press 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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Genius of the Press XVII

The Moth is off to Catalina

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Tomorrow morning I’m off for a 10 day collecting trip down to Catalina Island. I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to join Dr. Jerry Powell of UC Berkeley on a moth survey, and this will be my first time to any of the islands. . . . → Skaityti daugiau: The Moth is off to Catalina

The tiniest of moths

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 colių, and one of the smallest (yes that tiny little speck . . . → Skaityti daugiau: The tiniest of moths

A Year in Review

Oops, 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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: A Year in Review

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?

 

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