Mysterie doordeweeks

While I work on a more substantial post, you can name this butterflyand the plant should be pretty easy too. Extra bonus if you can guess the county (state won’t be too impressive) in which I took this photo. This was pre-DSLR, but my old beat up canon point-and-shoot did manage to get . . . → Lees meer: Mysterie doordeweeks

Monarch Madness

For regular readers of my blog you might already know my stance on the monarch, but catch up here if you’d like to. Yesterday I came across this article in the LA timesregarding the overwintering colonies of monarchs in Pacific Grove, CA. Out here, west of the continental divide, there are quite a . . . → Lees meer: Monarch Madness

Genius of the Press XI

This genius of the press is extra special, not for its difficulty, but for its redundancy. I found the same story carried on two separate sources, with different imagesand both equally incorrect! I can imagine that it won’t take long for someone to point out exactly what’s wrong with these stories (hint, er . . . → Lees meer: Genius of the Press XI

Genie van de pers X

This one is just too easy. The billboard is on I-35 south of Burleson, Texas.

I don’t know the true provenance of this image, but it came my way from Omar Bocanegra via Mike Quinn on the Texas Lepidoptera list-serv.

Vlinder porno

Here is a hill-topping male Papilio zeliacon, of anijszwaluwstaart. Deze vlinder is wijdverspreid in de westelijke staten van de Stille Oceaan en komt waarschijnlijk veel vaker voor dan ooit. Na de introductie van venkel (Gemeenschappelijke venkel), en daaropvolgende ontsnapping uit de tuinbouw, de anijszwaluwstaart werd een gewone Californische vlinder. Perhaps before this . . . → Lees meer: Vlinder porno

This time, with a moth

Here are a few more images from my recent northern road trip, this time from western Idaho. Right outside the town of New Meadows were fields of flowers thick with life. It was some of the best day collecting I’ve done in years, and fellow road tripper Peter Jump and I discovered this . . . → Lees meer: This time, with a moth

The only bar in town

In eastern Lassen county, on the vast high juniper hills of the California-Nevada border, there are herds ofwildhorses, sheep and cattle. Par for the course, the only flowering plant around was horehound (Marrubium vulgare). Despite the non-native flora and (semi)mega-fauna, the insects were still at home. Being the only nectar source, the small . . . → Lees meer: The only bar in town

Weer op de weg

Over the next week and a half I’ll be driving up to Washington state for the annual Lepidopterists’ Samenleving vergadering. Het is gelegen in het toeristische-val stadje Leavenworth, die een “Beierse thema” diorama van een ansichtkaart en klompenmakerij winkels. Terwijl ik kan nooit echt de aantrekkingskracht van thema-steden te begrijpen, it is something . . . → Lees meer: Weer op de weg

Genius of the Press VIII

Welcome to volume eight of the inconsistently reoccurring series, Genie van de pers. I came across this article recently regarding an endemic Puerto Rican butterfly. Who can tell me exactly why this report is misleading? It may be a little trickier than the standard GOP (I suggest discarding any previously associated acronyms with those letters). . . . → Lees meer: Genius of the Press VIII

De mot en ik #12

Welkom bij The Moth and Me #12, en mijn eerste blog carnaval. Ondanks bloggen voor een paar maanden heb ik nog een kijkje terug te nemen en na te denken over hoe ik werd verliefd op lepidoptera in de eerste plaats. Remembering een tijdstip of locatie waar dit gebeurde is onmogelijk, en net als . . . → Lees meer: De mot en ik #12