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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Butterfly of the week
 5 komentarai - (Komentarai nepriimami)  Entomologija  Drugeliai, Konkursas, Entomologija, Drugiai Lepidoptera 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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Moth tasting in Napa Dalytis šiuo! 11 komentarai - (Komentarai nepriimami) Entomologija Rinkti, Entomologija, Drugiai Lepidoptera, Kandys 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? Dalytis šiuo! 4 komentarai - (Komentarai nepriimami) Entomologija Blogas Mokslas, Konkursas, Entomologija, Drugiai Lepidoptera, Žiniasklaida 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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: I may drive too much Dalytis šiuo! 5 komentarai - (Komentarai nepriimami) Entomologija Rinkti, Entomologija, Pavojų Kolekcionavimas, Drugiai Lepidoptera, Kandys, Naujos rūšys A continuation of the aquamoth series, this time with video from Science Friday! Taip, I have to link it because wordpress won’t embed… Ačiū Ted, figured it out! Dalytis šiuo! 2 komentarai - (Komentarai nepriimami) Entomologija Rinkti, Entomologija, Drugiai Lepidoptera, Kandys, Rūšis 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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Rivers of Gold Dalytis šiuo! 6 komentarai - (Komentarai nepriimami) Entomologija Entomologija, Gėlės, Drugiai Lepidoptera, Kandys 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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Aquamoth part 2 Dalytis šiuo!Visiems susilaikiusiems (Noriu manyti, kad kai kurie skaitytojai turėjo žinoti mūsų paslaptingo vikšro tapatybę, bet buvo per daug tingus komentuoti), štai atsakymas (po pertraukos).
. . . → Skaityti daugiau: Atsakymas į praėjusios savaitės spaudos genijų Dalytis šiuo! Vienas komentaras - (Komentarai nepriimami) Entomologija Konkursas, Entomologija, Drugiai Lepidoptera, Žiniasklaida 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. . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Aquamoth! Dalytis šiuo!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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: California Spring Dalytis šiuo! |
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