ANSWER: This wasn’t easy – but this large and beautiful moth was from Australia and is in the family 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 . . . → 자세히보기: 월요일 엄
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Chiricahua multidentata (Geometridae) This Monday’s moth is a spectacular species from the mountains of Arizona – Chiricahua multidentata, a Geometrid. The only known location for this species is at the very top of the Chiricahua mountains above 9,000 feet (which was just bruned to a crisp). Hopefully the fire was not . . . → 자세히보기: 월요일 엄 이 항목을 공유!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). 그러나 . . . → 자세히보기: 월요일 엄 이 항목을 공유!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 . . . → 자세히보기: 월요일 엄 이 항목을 공유!
Source: Wikipedia It turns out that Richard Branson has a new idea; to save the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) by importing them to his private British Virgin Island. As the article points out Branson spent millions of pounds and years of effort to turn the island into “the most ecologically . . . → 자세히보기: 리처드 브랜슨은 바보야 이 항목을 공유!확인 – 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 . . . → 자세히보기: 미스터리 Revelaed 이 항목을 공유!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 과 . . . → 자세히보기: 세계 생물 종 다양성의 추정 이 항목을 공유!A continuation of the aquamoth series, this time with video from Science Friday! 예, I have to link it because wordpress won’t embed… 감사 테드, figured it out! 이 항목을 공유!나는 양서류 나방 문서의 전체 텍스트 PDF를 발견하고 이 종 그룹의 방사선과 양서류 형질의 가능한 진화를 보여주는 나무를 추출했습니다.. 케이스 모양에 주목하는 것이 흥미롭습니다., 각 나방은 하와이 군도에 있는 자체 화산 고유의 고유종입니다.. This is a Bayesian analysis of . . . → 자세히보기: Aquamoth 부 2 이 항목을 공유!하와이의 또 다른 놀라운 동물 – a completely amphibious caterpillar (3월 출간 22 PNAS). 수생 나비목이 몇 개 있지만, 그들 모두는 물에 제한된 아가미를 가지고 있습니다. (당신을 신경, 우리는 애벌레 단계에 대해서만 이야기하고 있습니다). 그들의 시냇물이 마르면, 애벌레도 마찬가지. . . . → 자세히보기: 아쿠아모스! 이 항목을 공유! |
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