Bem-vindo para o novo local!

Welcome to the new home of the Skeptical Moth! I know updating blogrolls isn’t all that fun, but thank you for sticking with me. And since it’s Mondayhere is an Automeris io (Saturniidae) from southern Illinois, Maio 2012.

 

Cheers and Happy New Year!

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Difusa Rosa segunda-feira Traça

Uma traça segunda-feira em rosa felpudo – includens (Saturniidae). Essas mariposas bordo rosadas são bastante comuns no sul de Illinois, mas sempre um stunner quando eles vêm à tona.

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Retrato de mariposa

Not an uncommon moth, but a distinguished looking one. This is Catocala ilia (Erebidae) ((formerly Noctuidae)), and it feeds on a handful of Oaks. It came into my light over the weekend in Southern Illinois, down in the Trail of Tears State Forest. As with so many other moths this widespread species has a number . . . → Leia mais: Retrato de mariposa

Prairie em Primavera Manhã Fria

On a brisk 37 degree morning in Northern Illinois I decided to dust off my camera and explore the progress ofspring”. I hit Rollins Savanna Forest Preserve by 6:30no, just in time for first light to melt the patchy frost. A week and a half ago temps were pushing the upper 80’s and summer . . . → Leia mais: Prairie em Primavera Manhã Fria

The end of an era

Today marks a sad day in Physics history, the Tevatron accelerator at Fermi Lab in Batavia Illinois was powered down for the last time. Once the second most powerful accelerator in the world (and most powerful in the USA), the new LHC has made this beautiful machine obsolete. I can only assume the teams of . . . → Leia mais: The end of an era