Por Chris Grinter, el 18 de julio, 2011% I’ll keep the ball rolling with Arctiinae and post a photo today of Ctenucha brunnea. This moth can be common in tall grasses along beaches from San Francisco to LA – although in recent decades the numbers of this moth have been declining with habitat destruction and the invasion of beach grass (Ammophila arenaria). Sino . . . → Leer más: Lunes Moth
Por Chris Grinter, el 11 de julio, 2011% La polilla de hoy es una especie hermosa y rara del sureste de Arizona y México: Lerina encarnada (Erebidae: Arctiinae). Como muchas otras especies voladoras diurnas, tiene colores brillantes y es muy probable que sea aposemática.. Después de todo, la planta huésped es un algodoncillo y la oruga es igual de impresionante (abajo).
Lerina encarnada (Erebidae: Arctiinae)
Esta . . . → Leer más: Lunes Moth
Por Chris Grinter, el 5 de julio, 2011%
Parece que hay una preponderancia de leyendas urbanas que involucran insectos que se meten en la cara mientras dormimos.. El mito más famoso es algo parecido a “comes 8 arañas al año mientras duermes“. En realidad, cuando buscas en Google, el número oscila entre 4 a 8… hasta . . . → Leer más: Todo nuevo, polillas de ataque!
Por Chris Grinter, on June 20th, 2011% I’m going to keep the ball rolling with this series and try to make it more regular. I will also focus on highlighting a new species each week from the massive collections here at the California Academy of Sciences. This should give me enough material for… at least a few hundred years.
Grammia . . . → Leer más: Lunes Moth
Por Chris Grinter, on June 15th, 2011% Map/% updated June 20, 6pm.
Updates to the maps and containment percentages have been made to my earlier post. Here is a map of the 4th fire burning in SE Arizona, the Monument fire. This one is only 10% 17% 15% 27% contained and is burning in the southern end of the Huachuca Mountains . . . → Leer más: Arizona followup
Por Chris Grinter, on May 30th, 2011%
¡Vaya, it’s almost Tuesday! Above is Schinia ligeae (Noctuidae) resting on its host plant Xylorhiza tortifolia, the Mojave Aster. I photographed this about three weeks ago outside the town of Big Pine, California. The asters were thick in the valleys below the snow capped Sierra, and the moths were abundant. . . . → Leer más: Lunes Moth
Por Chris Grinter, on May 7th, 2011%
Who can tell me what’s wrong below? Not only is it the obvious photo problem, but the author of the article takes some logical leaps to support his premise. Who can tell me what his logical fallacies are? I won’t link to the entire article quite yet because a well known Lepidopterist has already . . . → Leer más: Genio de la prensa XVIII
Por Chris Grinter, on April 24th, 2011%
Everyone is familiar with the famous death’s head hawkmoth, but I think it’s a shame we have popularized such a grim character. Above is a much more cheery Neotropical Arctiinae from French Guiana that looks like it’s sporting a clown face. Sadly this isn’t my photograph, pero . . . → Leer más: Sunday Moth
Por Chris Grinter, on April 18th, 2011% A few weeks ago I was invited to join a Berkeley entomology class out in the field for the weekend. Our destination was the Blue Oak Ranch Reserve; one of the newest reserves to the University of California system located just outside of San Jose on Mount Hamilton (map below). It was a . . . → Leer más: Azul Ranch Reserva Roble
Por Chris Grinter, el 22 de marzo, 2011% Por lo general me encuentro con horribles artículos entomología regularidad suficiente que guardo un atraso para las futuras series. This hasn’t been the case over the last few weeks, No he venido a través de la matriz normal de terrible crud medios de comunicación. Maybe I just get jaded and stop looking as carefully – pero esta semana me llegó incluso . . . → Leer más: Genio de la XVII Press
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