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If you happen to be living out in Yolo, Solano or Sacramento counties you should head out with a net. Dr. Art Shaprio has offered for the 40th year his cabbage white butterfly competition. If you are the very first person to catch a cabbage white (Pieris rapae . . . → Read More: Butterflies for Beer Share this! 4 comments - (Comments are closed)  Entomology  Beer, Butterflies, Contest, Entomology, Lepidoptera, Pieris rapae, UC Davis For this issue of the genius of the press, who can tell me what’s wrong with this article? It’s pretty subtle, but a clear mistake, especially for LiveScience. Share this!
Not too long ago I posted about the device above – a cool looking glass bulb which supposedly uses light to scare away flights. That claim hit my skeptical nerve, and I discussed it in my previous post. Over the past weeks I’ve been researching reasonable methods . . . → Read More: Leave it to the Mythbusters Share this!Welcome to the new year, and nearly a full year of blogging! It’s amazing how fast the time flew by, but again it always does. As you likely noticed December turned out to be my weakest posting month with a whopping 2 posts. Resolution: more posting! Now I haven’t started blogging about music (for those . . . → Read More: A ghost is born Share this! 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Entomology Entomology, Field Museum, Lepidoptera, Moths, New Species, Sierra Nevada How about $2,000? Or maybe you know an undergrad who needs this? BioQuip offers a yearly scholarship to “encourage [undergraduate] student interest in entomology”, but guess how many people applied last year? 3. And sadly that’s actually high, I’m pretty certain that the award has gone unclaimed in years past. Chris Fall of BioQuip made . . . → Read More: Are you an undergrad? Share this! One comment - (Comments are closed) Entomology Announcement, BioQuip, Entomology, Scholarship, Undergraduate Here are some screenshots from one of my favorite podcasts, The Moth! For those who aren’t aware of it, you should check it out – and be surprised that it’s not actually entomology related. True stories told live on stage that range from hilarious to heartbreaking. BUT, they have made an appearance on my GOP . . . → Read More: Genius of the Press XIV Share this!Tomorrow begins stage 1 of field work/crazy driving and vacation time. I will be focused on collecting for this stage of the trip, hitting southern Texas just in time for the tail end of fall flying moths in the genus Schinia. But microleps are my primary interest, and I’m sure I’ll come back with hundreds . . . → Read More: Back in the Field Share this! One comment - (Comments are closed) Entomology Collecting, Entomology, Hazards of Collecting, Moths, Road Trip, Texas This week’s (as if I keep up with this weekly) GOP was sent to me by commenter “Subverted“. Thank you for the contribution! Makes like a whole lot easier, and I strongly encourage future submissions from other readers. For those new to my blog – the Genius of the Press series is a contest to . . . → Read More: Genius of the Press XIII Share this!
I came across this interesting device and had an instant gut reaction.. “Of course a stupid water bulb doesn’t repel flies, this is a scam!”… deep breath… OK that is terrible skepticism. Actually, it’s cynical and it’s just what skeptics hate being called. It’s also something that happens much too easily – . . . → Read More: Call me skeptical… Share this! 8 comments - (Comments are closed) Entomology, Skepticism Bad Science, Entomology, Logical Fallacies, Pests, Scams and Fraud, Skepticism On my daily commute back to Berkeley, I have spotted this (apologies for the cruddy image). Actually, I’ve seen a handful of these pop up around San Francisco and it makes me want to tear my hair out every time. For those who are new to my blog, this goes back to my Genius of . . . → Read More: It just won’t leave me alone Share this! 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Entomology Bad Science, Butterflies, Entomology, Mimicry, Taxonomy Fail |
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