Door Chris Grinter, on January 6th, 2011% Welcome to the new year, and nearly a full year of blogging! It’s amazing how fast the time flew by, but again it always does. As you likely noticed December turned out to be my weakest posting month with a whopping 2 posts. Resolution: more posting!
Now I haven’t started blogging about music (for those . . . → Lees meer: A ghost is born
Door Chris Grinter, on June 11th, 2010%
This moth is just about as rare as its paranormal namesake (except that it’s real) – it’s a Gazoryctra sp. in the family Hepialidae. They represent a basal lineage of the Lepidoptera and are commonly known as ghost moths or swift moths. Ghost – because males of some species are known to fly in . . . → Lees meer: Biologie van een geest
Door Chris Grinter, op 23 mei, 2010%
Natuurlijk, het werd genoemd fallus drewsii. Dit komt uit de lijst van de top 10 soorten genoemd in 2009, nageleefd door Arizona State University (niet een erg goede lijst als 7 van mijn nieuwe soorten waren er niet…). Terwijl ik de neiging om fallische en O'Keeffesque plantkunde voorkomen, dit kon ik niet weerstaan, omdat het . . . → Lees meer: Gewoon te makkelijk
Door Chris Grinter, op 27 april, 2010% Recently came across some ridiculously horrible taxonomy from China (.pdf). Als je naar beneden scrollt een beetje kunt u het engels vertaling te zien. Op het eerste gezicht lijkt dit een standaard taxonomie papier met kale beschrijvingen van soorten. Je zou zelfs kunnen denken aan jezelf, “huh, afvragen waarom ze beschrijven soorten uit slechts één exemplaar”. Not the . . . → Lees meer: Taxonomie Fail
Door Chris Grinter, on April 5th, 2010% 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 . . . → Lees meer: I may drive too much
Door Chris Grinter, on March 24th, 2010%
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. . . . → Lees meer: Aquamot!
Door Chris Grinter, on February 21st, 2010% Dus, how do I begin a new blog? Tough question, but perhaps this is a good time to show off a fun new species. This moth was collected last year outside of Santa Barbara, CA. The massive wingspan, at 15mm, makes it pretty large for a Gelechiid moth. The genus, Gnorimoschema (pronounced nor-a-mosh-ma), . . . → Lees meer: Inaugural post
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