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 . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Butterfly na seachtaine
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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 . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Moth tasting in Napa Comhroinn seo!Another installment of Genius of the Press, and perhaps a bit of a softball. (Yikes these are easy to find) Who can tell me whats wrong with this article? Comhroinn seo! 4 tuairimí - (Comments dúnta)  Feithideolaíocht  Eolaíocht Bad, Comórtas, Feithideolaíocht, Lepidoptera, Meáin 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 . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Is féidir liom tiomáint i bhfad ró Comhroinn seo! 5 tuairimí - (Comments dúnta) Feithideolaíocht Bailiú, Feithideolaíocht, Guaiseacha de bhailiú, Lepidoptera, Leamhain, Speiceas Nua A continuation of the aquamoth series, this time with video from Science Friday! Is ea, I have to link it because wordpress won’t embed… Go raibh maith agat Ted, figured it out! Comhroinn seo! 2 tuairimí - (Comments dúnta) Feithideolaíocht Bailiú, Feithideolaíocht, Lepidoptera, Leamhain, Speiceas Tá cúpla íomhánna ó mo thuras mothing deireadh seachtaine síos go dtí Shell Creek, San Luis Obispo Contae. Tá an earraigh Luath feadh chósta lárnach néal, agus bhí pacáilte bóithre ar ais le feighlithe bláth. Bhí mórán de na carranna áitithe ag teaghlaigh amach le haghaidh tiomáint deireadh seachtaine, Bhí lónta pacáilte go leor agus shuigh chun féachaint ar an . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Aibhneacha na Óir Comhroinn seo!Tháinig mé trasna ar PDF lán-théacs an ailt leamhain amfaibeach agus bhain mé an crann a thaispeánann radaíocht an ghrúpa speiceas seo agus éabhlóid dhóchúil na dtréithe amfaibiacha. Suimiúil cruth an cháis a thabhairt faoi deara, agus tá gach leamhan endemic dá bholcán féin san oileánra Haváí. This is a Bayesian analysis of . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Aquamoth chuid 2 Comhroinn seo!For all those who abstained from voting (I want to assume some readers must have known the identity of our mystery caterpillar, but were too lazy to comment), here is the answer (after the break).
. . . → Leigh Nios mo: Answer to last week’s Genius of the Press Comhroinn seo!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. . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Aquamoth! Comhroinn seo!Tá an Earraigh tagtha chun thuaidh California agus leamhain ar an sciathán. Ghlac mé turas mear suas go dtí an foothills Siarra thar an deireadh seachtaine agus hiked suas na fánaí géara os cionn an Abhainn Mheiriceánach. Os cionn phictiúr Xanthothrix ranunculi f. albipuncta (Noctuidae: Stiriinae). Tarlaíonn sé a bheith ina suí ar California álainn . . . → Leigh Nios mo: California Earraigh Comhroinn seo! |
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