While I work on a more substantial post, you can name this butterfly – and 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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: Mid-week Mystery
 8 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise)  Entomologie  Fluturi, Concurs, Entomologie, lepidoptere, Plants 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 times – regarding the overwintering colonies of monarchs in Pacific Grove, CA. Out here, west of the continental divide, there are quite a . . . → Citeste mai mult: Monarch Madness Trimiteți acest! 4 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, Conservare, Speciile invazive, lepidoptere, Monarchs 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 images – and 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, acolo . . . → Citeste mai mult: Genius de presă XI Trimiteți acest! 2 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Entomologie, Umor, lepidoptere, Mass-media, Molii 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. Trimiteți acest! 6 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, Colectare, Umor, lepidoptere, Mass-media Here is a hill-topping male Papilio zeliacon, sau anason rândunicii. Acest fluture este larg răspândită în statele din Pacific de Vest și este, probabil, mult mai frecvent decat a fost odata. După introducerea de fenicul (Foeniculum vulgare), și scape ulterior de horticultură, rândunicii anason apucat ca un fluture comun California. Perhaps before this . . . → Citeste mai mult: porno fluture Trimiteți acest! 5 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, Conservare, Entomologie, Specie dispărută, lepidoptere 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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: This time, with a moth Trimiteți acest! 3 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, ADN-ul, Entomologie, lepidoptere, Molii In eastern Lassen county, on the vast high juniper hills of the California-Nevada border, there are herds of “wild” horses, 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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: The only bar in town Trimiteți acest! 6 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, Conservare, Entomologie, lepidoptere Over the next week and a half I’ll be driving up to Washington state for the annual Lepidopterists’ Întâlnirea societății. It is located in the tourist-trap town of Leavenworth, which is a “Bavarian themed” diorama of postcard and clog shops. While I can never quite understand the appeal of themed towns, it is something . . . → Citeste mai mult: On the road again Trimiteți acest!Welcome to volume eight of the inconsistently reoccurring series, Genius a presei. 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). . . . → Citeste mai mult: Genius of the Press VIII Trimiteți acest! 5 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Fluturi, Conservare, Concurs, Entomologie, lepidoptere, Mass-media
Welcome to The Moth and Me #12, and my first blog carnival. Despite blogging for a few months I have yet to take a look back and reflect on exactly how I became enamored with lepidoptera in the first place. Remembering a time or location where this happened is impossible, and like . . . → Citeste mai mult: The Moth and Me #12 Trimiteți acest! 10 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Carnival, Entomologie, lepidoptere, Molii, The Moth and Me |
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