I’ve been a bit remiss at posting regular challenges, so I’ll try to pick up the pace. Who can tell me anything about this butterfly? The most you’re getting is that it is from the Western half of the US. Credit for family, genus or species and ridiculous credit for subspecies and where it is . . . → Gehiago irakurri: Butterfly of the week
|
It was a beautiful day today in the bay area, so I headed up to Napa and the Pope Valley. I was scouting some new territory for a small flower moth, Heliolonche celeris, that apparently is waiting for more contiguous nice weather to emerge. This season has been a bit tardy because of all of . . . → Gehiago irakurri: Sitsaren dastaketa Napan Share honetan!Genius of the Press-en beste atal bat, eta beharbada softball pixka bat. (Bai, hauek erraz aurki daitezke) Who can tell me whats wrong with this article? Share honetan! 4 iruzkinak - (Iruzkinak itxita daude)  Entomología  Bad Science, Lehiaketa, Entomología, Lepidoptera, Komunikabideak The clouds broke this afternoon in San Francisco and the sun began to shine. The upcoming warm weather induced an all too familiar feeling, one that I should be out collecting insects and not sitting indoors! While I have already been to a handful of places this spring, I have a long season of collecting . . . → Gehiago irakurri: Gehiegi gidatu dezaket Share honetan! 5 iruzkinak - (Iruzkinak itxita daude) Entomología Biltzen, Entomología, Bilketa-arriskuak, Lepidoptera, Sitsak, Espezie berria A continuation of the aquamoth series, this time with video from Science Friday! Bai, I have to link it because wordpress won’t embed… Thanks Ted, figured it out! Share honetan! 2 iruzkinak - (Iruzkinak itxita daude) Entomología Biltzen, Entomología, Lepidoptera, Sitsak, Espezieen A few images from my weekend mothing trip down to Shell Creek, San Luis Obispo County. Early spring along the central coast is stunning, and the back roads were packed with flower watchers. There were dozens of cars occupied by families out for a weekend drive, many had packed lunches and sat to watch the . . . → Gehiago irakurri: Rivers of Gold Share honetan!I came across the full-text PDF of the amphibious moth article and extracted the tree showing the radiation of this species group and probable evolution of the amphibious traits. Interesting to note the case shape, and each moth is endemic to its own volcano in the Hawaiian archipelago. This is a Bayesian analysis of . . . → Gehiago irakurri: Aquamoth zatia 2 Share honetan!Bozketan abstenitu diren guztientzat (Irakurle batzuek gure beldar misteriotsuaren identitatea ezagutu behar zutela suposatu nahi dut, baina alferegiak ziren komentatzeko), hona erantzuna (atsedenaldiaren ostean).
. . . → Gehiago irakurri: Joan den asteko Genius of Press-en erantzuna Share honetan! Iruzkin bat - (Iruzkinak itxita daude) Entomología Lehiaketa, Entomología, Lepidoptera, Komunikabideak Another amazing animal from Hawaii – a completely amphibious caterpillar (published in the March 22 PNAS). While there are a few aquatic Lepidoptera, all of them have gills that keep them restricted to the water (mind you, we are talking only about the larval stage). If their stream dries up, so does the caterpillar. . . . → Gehiago irakurri: Aquamoth! Share honetan!Spring has come to northern California and moths are on the wing. I took a quick trip up to the Sierra foothills over the weekend and hiked up the steep slopes above the American River. Above is pictured Xanthothrix ranunculi f. albipuncta (Noctuidae: Stiriinae). It happens to be sitting on a beautiful california . . . → Gehiago irakurri: California Spring Share honetan! |
eszeptizismoa |
