Mid-week Mystery

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 . . . → לייענען מער: Mid-week Mystery

מאָנאַרטש מאַדנעסס

פֿאַר רעגולער לייענער פון מיין בלאָג איר זאל שוין וויסן מיין סטאַנס אויף די מאָנאַרטש, but catch up here if you’d like to. Yesterday I came across this article in the LA times – וועגן די אָווערווינטערינג קאָלאָניעס פון מאַנאַרקס אין פּאַסיפיק גראָווע, CA. אויס דאָ, מערב פון די קאָנטינענטאַל טיילן, there are quite a . . . → לייענען מער: מאָנאַרטש מאַדנעסס

זשעני פון דער פרעסע שי

דעם געניוס פון די פּרעסע איז עקסטרע ספּעציעל, ניט פֿאַר זייַן שוועריקייט, אָבער פֿאַר זייַן יבעריקייַט. איך האב געטראפען די זעלבע מעשה אויף צוויי באזונדערע מקורים, מיט פאַרשידענע בילדער – און ביידע גלײַך אומרעכט! איך קענען ימאַדזשאַן אַז עס וועט נישט נעמען לאַנג פֿאַר עמעצער צו פונט אויס פּונקט וואָס איז פאַלש מיט די מעשיות (אָנצוהערעניש, דאָרט . . . → לייענען מער: זשעני פון דער פרעסע שי

געניוס פון די פרעסע X

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

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.

Butterfly Porn

Here is a hill-topping male Papilio zeliacon, or Anise swallowtail. This butterfly is widespread in the western Pacific states and is probably much more common than it once was. After the introduction of fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), and subsequent escape from horticulture, the anise swallowtail took hold as a common California butterfly. Perhaps before this . . . → לייענען מער: Butterfly Porn

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 . . . → לייענען מער: 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 . . . → לייענען מער: The only bar in town

On the road again

Over the next week and a half I’ll be driving up to Washington state for the annual Lepidopterists’ חברה פאַרזאַמלונג. It is located in the tourist-trap town of Leavenworth, which is aBavarian themeddiorama of postcard and clog shops. While I can never quite understand the appeal of themed towns, it is something . . . → לייענען מער: On the road again

Genius of the Press VIII

Welcome to volume eight of the inconsistently reoccurring series, זשעני פון די דרוק. 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). . . . → לייענען מער: Genius of the Press VIII

די מאָט און מיר #12

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 . . . → לייענען מער: די מאָט און מיר #12