Recently came across some ridiculously horrible taxonomy from China (.pdf). If you scroll down a bit you can see the english translation. At first glance this looks like a standard taxonomy paper with bare-bones species descriptions. You might even think to yourself, “huh, wonder why they are describing species from only one specimen”. Not the . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Tacsanomaíochta Teip
 4 tuairimí - (Comments dúnta)  Feithideolaíocht  Féileacáin, Crank, Feithideolaíocht, Lepidoptera, Speiceas Nua to fake a UFO encounter? I recorded this video two years ago over the desert of Arizona. To confess, it made my heart skip a beat at first. I turned around and there were three glowing lights floating silently above me. I literally thought to myself “holy s#@% I don’t believe in this crap!”. An . . . → Leigh Nios mo: How easy is it… Comhroinn seo!I’ve just illustrated my method for spreading microlepidoptera, go explore the techniques page. Who is courageous enough to attempt it?
Comhroinn seo! 4 tuairimí - (Comments dúnta) Feithideolaíocht Bailiú, Feithideolaíocht, Lepidoptera, Leamhain, Teicnící With a great message from Bill Nye, the Science Guy. We need to be conservationists to be sure, preserving wetlands, forests, open spaces and coastlines. We need to reduce our waste — plastic trash and the like. But what we really need is big, new ideas: new ways to distribute and store energy for . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Happy Earth Day Comhroinn seo!A 15 míol mór liath chos nite suas díreach ar an San Francisco Bay. Anois tá ár n-deis do exploding chuid míol mór 2! Comhroinn seo!I’ve been busy spreading microleps over the last few days, and here is a small selection from my summer collecting trips. Still have at least another 200 to go before catching up on my backlog. I am working on illustrating just how to spread these moths… mar sin fanacht tuned. 2009 was a great season. Mé . . . → Leigh Nios mo: How I keep myself busy Comhroinn seo!So what is wrong with this illustration below? Sounds like a great show at the Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati. This news story made me look just a little closer… Comhroinn seo!Mé teacht trasna ar roinnt athscríbhinní r-phost ceisteanna a sheoladh isteach inár rannóg feithideolaíocht agus ní féidir liom resist roinnt leo. Geallaim go bhfuil na teachtaireachtaí (agus beidh) 100% fíor agus gan eagarthóireacht. Ainmneacha athraíodh nó a bhaint a chosaint ar an neamhchiontach. Táimid dóchasach, Beidh mé ag teacht ar fud na gach uair amháin ar feadh tamaill, agus . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Níos dlúithe, toirt I Comhroinn seo! 8 tuairimí - (Comments dúnta) Feithideolaíocht Feithideolaíocht, Ceisteanna Coitianta, Ghuaiseacha an Job, Greann, Litreacha I’ve been a bit remiss at posting regular challenges, so I’ll try to pick up the pace. Who can tell me anything about this butterfly? The most you’re getting is that it is from the Western half of the US. Credit for family, genus or species and ridiculous credit for subspecies and where it is . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Butterfly na seachtaine Comhroinn seo!I sat rapt in front of my TV on Sunday watching the latest installment of the BBC/Discovery series “Life”. The first thing that comes to my mind… “WHY was Oprah chosen to narrate!?” Ar ndóigh, I waited for the insects special to air before I blogged about this, but having to listen to Oprah for the . . . → Leigh Nios mo: Get a Life, Discovery Comhroinn seo! |
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