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 . . . → Leia mais: Borboleta da semana
 5 comentários - (Comentários estão fechados)  Entomologia  Borboletas, Competição, Entomologia, Lepidoptera Foi um lindo dia hoje na área da baía, então fui para Napa e Pope Valley. Eu estava explorando um novo território em busca de uma pequena mariposa, Heliolonche é rápida, que aparentemente está esperando que um clima agradável mais contíguo surja. This season has been a bit tardy because of all of . . . → Leia mais: Degustação de mariposas em Napa Compartilhe este!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? Compartilhe este! 4 comentários - (Comentários estão fechados) Entomologia Ciência ruim, Competição, Entomologia, Lepidoptera, Mídia 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 . . . → Leia mais: I may drive too much Compartilhe este! 5 comentários - (Comentários estão fechados) Entomologia Coleta, Entomologia, Riscos da Coleta, Lepidoptera, Traças, Nova Espécie A continuation of the aquamoth series, this time with video from Science Friday! Sim, I have to link it because wordpress won’t embed… Graças Ted, figured it out! Compartilhe este! 2 comentários - (Comentários estão fechados) Entomologia Coleta, Entomologia, Lepidoptera, Traças, Espécies 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 . . . → Leia mais: Rivers of Gold Compartilhe este!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 . . . → Leia mais: Aquamoth part 2 Compartilhe este!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).
. . . → Leia mais: Answer to last week’s Genius of the Press Compartilhe este! Um comentário - (Comentários estão fechados) Entomologia Competição, Entomologia, Lepidoptera, Mídia 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. . . . → Leia mais: Aquamoth! Compartilhe este!A primavera chegou ao norte da Califórnia e mariposas estão na asa. Eu tomei uma rápida viagem até o sopé da Serra no fim de semana e de subir as encostas íngremes acima do rio americano. Acima é retratado Xanthothrix ranúnculos f. albipuncta (Noctuidae: Stiriinae). Acontece estar sentado em um belo california . . . → Leia mais: Califórnia Primavera Compartilhe este! |
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