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Merope tuber New to the web this week is an excellent resource on the Mecoptera of North America. ڈاکٹر. 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 . . . → مزید پڑھیں: شمالی امریکہ کا میکوپٹیرا اس اشتراک کریں!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 . . . → مزید پڑھیں: Blue Oak Ranch Reserve اس اشتراک کریں!ٹھیک ہے – 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 . . . → مزید پڑھیں: Mystery Revelaed اس اشتراک کریں!
Came across this guy while out in the field the other day, what’s going on here? Points awarded for Order/Family/Genus – but even experts in this group can’t figure out the species quite yet.
(everyone in the field with me should hold . . . → مزید پڑھیں: Monday mystery اس اشتراک کریں!Lasia klettii: Photos by April Nobile, CAS For the most part flies are not an insect I get overly excited about. تاہم, the enigmatic family Acroceridae are the exception. I’ll start sharing some interesting genera from time to time – the morphology of the family is amazingly diverse. Most of my days . . . → مزید پڑھیں: مکھیوں ہو سکتا ہے (واقعی) ٹھنڈی اس اشتراک کریں!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 carefully – but this week I even came . . . → مزید پڑھیں: پریس XVII کے گنوتی اس اشتراک کریں![cetsEmbedGmap src=http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.393039,-118.416824&spn=0.359452,0.715485&t=h&z=11 width=600 height=330 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=auto] 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. . . . → مزید پڑھیں: The Moth is off to Catalina اس اشتراک کریں!
خاندان Nepticulidae جانا جاتا ہے سب سے چھوٹی کیڑا میں سے کچھ پکڑ, 3-8mm ونگ ٹپ سے بازو ٹپ تک. ایک مقابلے کے لئے میں نے اوپر دو کیڑا imaged ہے: سب سے بڑا معلوم – Coscinocera hercules that tips the scales at nearly 9 انچ, اور سب سے چھوٹی سے ایک (yes that tiny little speck . . . → مزید پڑھیں: کیڑا کی tiniest اس اشتراک کریں! 7 تبصرے - (تبصرے بند ہیں)  حشریات  حشریات, لیپڈوپٹیرہ, Microlepidoptera, کیڑا, Nepticulidae, نئی پرجاتی, پیلیونٹولوجی, کیڑوں افوہ, 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 . . . → مزید پڑھیں: A Year in Review اس اشتراک کریں!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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