Hétfő Moth

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 LAalthough in recent decades the numbers of this moth have been declining with habitat destruction and the invasion of beach grass (Ammophila arenaria). De . . . → Tovább: Hétfő Moth

Hétfő Moth

Today’s moth is a beautiful and rare species from SE Arizona and Mexico: Lerina incarnata (Erebidae: Arctiinae). Like many other day flying species it is brilliantly colored and quite likely aposematic. After all, the host plant is a milkweed and the caterpillar is just as stunning (alatt).

Lerina incarnata (Erebidae: Arctiinae)

 

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All New, Attack Moths!

It seems like there is a preponderance of urban legends that involve insects crawling into our faces while we sleep. The most famous myth is something along the lines ofyou eat 8 spiders a year while sleeping“. Actually when you google that the number ranges from 4 to 8up to . . . → Tovább: All New, Attack Moths!

Hétfő Moth

Folyamatosan gurulok ezzel a sorozattal és megpróbálom rendszeresebbé tenni. Arra is összpontosítok, hogy minden héten új fajokat emeljek ki a kaliforniai Tudományos Akadémia hatalmas gyűjteményeiből. Ennek elegendő anyagot kell adnom… legalább néhány száz év.

Grammia . . . → Tovább: Hétfő Moth

Arizona followup

Map/% updated June 20, 6délután.

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 . . . → Tovább: Arizona followup

Hétfő Moth

Hoppá, 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, Kalifornia. The asters were thick in the valleys below the snow capped Sierra, and the moths were abundant. . . . → Tovább: Hétfő Moth

Genius of the Press XVIII

 

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 . . . → Tovább: Genius of the Press XVIII

Vasárnap Moth

 

Everyone is familiar with the famous death’s head hawkmoth, de azt hiszem, ez egy szégyen, népszerűsítették ilyen komor jellegű. Fent egy sokkal vidám Neotropical Arctiinae francia Guyana, hogy néz ki ez a sport a bohóc arca. Sajnos ez nem az én fénykép, de . . . → Tovább: Vasárnap Moth

Blue Oak Ranch Reserve

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 . . . → Tovább: Blue Oak Ranch Reserve

Genius of the Press XVII

Usually I come across horrible entomology articles regularly enough that I save a backlog for future series. This hasn’t been the case over the last few weeks, I haven’t come across the normal array of terrible media crud. Maybe I just get jaded and stop looking as carefullybut this week I even came . . . → Tovább: Genius of the Press XVII