REPONS: Sa a te pa fasil – men sa a mit k'ap manje rad gwo ak bèl te soti nan Ostrali ak se nan fanmi an Xyloryctidae (Philarista sp.). We have a handful of representatives of this group here in the US and Ted MacRae over on Beetles in the Bush has a few great photographs of them. Somehow I think we . . . → Li piplis: Lendi vè
 8 kòmantè - (Kòmantè yo fèmen)  Antomoloji  California Academy of Syans, Konkou, Antomoloji, Papiyon, Fotografi, Espès Chiricahua multidentate (Geometridae) Mit k'ap manje rad Lendi sa a se yon espès espektakilè soti nan mòn yo nan Arizona – Chiricahua multidentate, yon Geometrid. Kote a sèlman li te ye pou espès sa a se nan tèt la anpil nan mòn yo Chiricahua pi wo a 9,000 pye (ki te jis bruned nan yon sèk). Hopefully the fire was not . . . → Li piplis: Lendi vè Pataje sa a!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). men, . . . → Li piplis: Lendi vè Pataje sa a! Yon kòmantè - (Kòmantè yo fèmen) Antomoloji California Academy of Syans, Antomoloji, Lepidoptèr, Lendi vè, Papiyon, Espès 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 . . . → Li piplis: Lendi vè Pataje sa a! Yon kòmantè - (Kòmantè yo fèmen) Antomoloji California Academy of Syans, Kolekte, Ekoloji, Antomoloji, Extinct, Lepidoptèr, Lendi vè, Papiyon, Espès
sous: Wikipedya Li sanble ke Richard Branson gen yon nouvo lide; pou konsève pou maki la bag-Vijini (maki catta) by importing them to his private British Virgin Island. Kòm pwen yo atik soti Branson pase dè milyon de liv ak ane nan efò yo vire zile a nan “the most ecologically . . . → Li piplis: Richard Branson se yon moun sòt Pataje sa a!OK – a few apologies for not having full images *yet* of the larvae in question (I will in a few days!). Over the weekend I was out with a group of Berkeley students on Mount Hamilton and PhD candidate Meghan Culpepper collected a few species of Scaphinotus and a some larvae! So the specimen . . . → Li piplis: Mistè Revelaed Pataje sa a! Yon kòmantè - (Kòmantè yo fèmen) Antomoloji Vonvon, Koleoptèr, Konkou, Antomoloji, Scaphinotus, Snail, Espès This recent article in the American Naturalist has taken a second look at some of the famously inflated species estimates, some going high as 100 million (Erwin, 1988). Estimates conducted by the authors indicate that projections above 30 million have probabilities of <0.00001. Their estimated range is more likely to be between 2.5 ak . . . → Li piplis: Estimates of Global Species Diversity Pataje sa a!A continuation of the aquamoth series, this time with video from Science Friday! Wi, I have to link it because wordpress won’t embed… Thanks Ted, figured it out! Pataje sa a!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 . . . → Li piplis: Pati Aquamoth 2 Pataje sa a!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 (lide ou, we are talking only about the larval stage). If their stream dries up, so does the caterpillar. . . . → Li piplis: Aquamoth! Pataje sa a! |
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