کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on April 27th, 2010% Recently came across some ridiculously horrible taxonomy from China (.پی ڈی ایف). 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 . . . → مزید پڑھیں: اصول صنف بندی ناکام
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on April 26th, 2010% 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!”. دی . . . → مزید پڑھیں: How easy is it…
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on April 23rd, 2010% I’ve just illustrated my method for spreading microlepidoptera, go explore the techniques page. Who is courageous enough to attempt it?
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on April 22nd, 2010% 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 . . . → مزید پڑھیں: Happy Earth Day
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on April 21st, 2010% ایک 15 foot gray whale just washed up in the San Francisco Bay. Now is our chance for exploding whale part 2!
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on April 21st, 2010% 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… تو دیکھتے رہنا.
2009 was a great season. میں . . . → مزید پڑھیں: How I keep myself busy
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on April 18th, 2010% 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…
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, اپریل 16th پر, 2010% I’ve come across a few e-mail transcripts of questions sent into our entomology department and I can not resist sharing them. I promise these messages are (and will be) 100% real and unedited. Names have been changed or removed to protect the innocent. Hopefully, I will come across these every once in a while, اور . . . → مزید پڑھیں: VOX Populi, volume I
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on April 14th, 2010% 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 . . . → مزید پڑھیں: Butterfly of the week
کرس Grinter کی طرف سے, on April 13th, 2010% 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!?” قدرتی طور پر, I waited for the insects special to air before I blogged about this, but having to listen to Oprah for the . . . → مزید پڑھیں: Get a Life, Discovery
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