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 . . . → Lege plus: Butterfly of the week
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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 . . . → Lege plus: Moth tasting in Napa Illud communicari!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? Illud communicari!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 . . . → Lege plus: Ut ejiciant nimis Illud communicari! 5 comment - (Leave a Reply Name)  Natural  Collectis, Natural, Discrimina Collectis, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Novae Species Sequentia sancti series aquamoth, this time with video from Science Friday! Etiam, Wordpress quia non habeo ut link embed… Thanks Ted, instar is sicco! Illud communicari!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 . . . → Lege plus: Rivers of Gold Illud communicari!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 . . . → Lege plus: Aquamoth pars 2 Illud communicari!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).
. . . → Lege plus: Answer to last week’s Genius of the Press Illud communicari!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 (cuius estis, we are talking only about the larval stage). If their stream dries up, so does the caterpillar. . . . → Lege plus: Aquamoth! Illud communicari!Spring venit ad septentrionali California, et tinea sunt in ala. Tuli a velox supplantator ad Sierra campestribus super weekend et hiked sursum arduo supra American River. Supra depicta est Xanthothrix ranunculorum f. albipuncta (Noctuinae: Stiriinae). Gaius pulchro sedet forte . . . → Lege plus: California Spring Illud communicari! |
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