Пеперутка на неделата

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 . . . → Прочитај повеќе: Пеперутка на неделата

Дегустација на молци во Напа

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 . . . → Прочитај повеќе: Дегустација на молци во Напа

Гениј на печатот, v. IV

Уште еден дел од Genius of the Press, а можеби и малку софтбол. (Да, овие се лесно да се најдат) Who can tell me whats wrong with this article?

Можеби возам премногу

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 . . . → Прочитај повеќе: Можеби возам премногу

Aquamoth дел 3

Продолжение на серијата аквамоти, this time with video from Science Friday! Да, Морам да го поврзам бидејќи wordpress нема да се вградува… Фала Тед, сфатив!

Реките од злато

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 . . . → Прочитај повеќе: Реките од злато

Aquamoth дел 2

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 . . . → Прочитај повеќе: Aquamoth дел 2

Answer to last week’s Genius of the Press

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).

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Аквамот!

Another amazing animal from Hawaiia 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. . . . → Прочитај повеќе: Аквамот!

Калифорнија пролет

Пролет дојде до северниот дел на Калифорнија и Молците се на крило. Зедов брзо патување до подножјето на Сиера во текот на викендот и пешачев до стрмните падини над реката американски. Погоре е прикажан Xanthothrix ranunculi F. албипункта (Noctuidae: Стирини). Тоа се случува да се седи на една убава Калифорнија . . . → Прочитај повеќе: Калифорнија пролет