Chris Grinter, liepos 18, 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). Tačiau . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Pirmadienis Drugelis
Chris Grinter, on July 11th, 2011% 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 (žemiau).
Lerina incarnata (Erebidae: Arctiinae)
Tai . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Pirmadienis Drugelis
Chris Grinter, on July 5th, 2011%
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 of “you eat 8 spiders a year while sleeping“. Actually when you google that the number ranges from 4 to 8… up to . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Visi Naujas, Attack kandys!
Chris Grinter, apie 20 Bir, 2011% Aš ruošiuosi išlaikyti kamuolys valcavimo su šios serijos ir pabandyti padaryti jį labiau įprastas. Aš taip pat sutelkti dėmesį į išryškinti naujas rūšis kiekvieną savaitę nuo masinių kolekcijų čia Kalifornijos mokslų akademijos. Tai turėtų duoti man pakankamai medžiagą… bent kelis šimtus metų.
Grammia . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Pirmadienis Drugelis
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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Arizona followup
Chris Grinter, nuo 30 gegužė, 2011%
Oi, tai beveik antradienis! 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, Kalifornija. Į Astra buvo storas žemiau sniego apriboto Siera slėnių, ir kandys buvo gausu. . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Pirmadienis Drugelis
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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Genius of the Press XVIII
Chris Grinter, balandžio 24 d, 2011%
Everyone is familiar with the famous death’s head hawkmoth, bet manau, kad gaila, kad išpopuliarinome tokį niūrų personažą. Viršuje yra daug linksmesnis neotropinis Arctiinae iš Prancūzijos Gvianos, kuris atrodo kaip klouno veidas.. Deja, tai ne mano nuotrauka, bet . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Sekmadienio kandis
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 . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Blue Oak Ranch draustinis
Chris Grinter, on March 22nd, 2011% 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 carefully – but this week I even came . . . → Skaityti daugiau: Genius of the Press XVII
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