Sexy, botellas de cerveza sexy

La 2011 La ceremonia del Ig Nobel tuvo lugar ayer en el Teatro Sanders de Harvard. El premio está patrocinado por Improbable Research, una organización que reúne fascinantes, impar, y artículos de investigación totalmente divertidos que triunfan sobre la idea de que no toda la ciencia es aburrida. Entre los distinguidos galardonados de este año se encontraba el entomólogo y bloguero David Rentz, quien recibió el . . . → Leer más: Sexy, botellas de cerveza sexy

Net-Winged Beetle

These large and interesting Lycidae beetles (Lycus fernandezi) were abundant in south eastern Arizona a few weeks ago. Constantly flying between flowers and moist sand they were making for easy photography targets. I thought to myselfhere is a great opportunity to catch a beetle taking off!”.

Wait for it

Lycus fernandezi (Lycidae)

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Tome esa, vertebrados!

He sabido por un tiempo que los escarabajos y otros invertidos en ocasiones tienen los vertebrados en su menú, pero yo no sabía realmente qué tan grande de un animal que podría someter! Incluso cuando la mantis extraño agarra un colibrí la diferencia de tamaño no es tan importante como se muestra a continuación. This impressive video was . . . → Leer más: Tome esa, vertebrados!

Azul Ranch Reserva Roble

A few weeks ago I was invited to join a Berkeley entomology class out in the field for the weekend. Our destination was the Blue Oak Ranch Reserve; one of the newest reserves to the University of California system located just outside of San Jose on Mount Hamilton (map below). It was a . . . → Leer más: Azul Ranch Reserva Roble

misterio revelado

Aceptar – 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 . . . → Leer más: misterio revelado

Monstruos Muppets

I stumbled upon (not on stumbleupon) these colored SEM images on the Telegraph webpage today. I especially love this image of a Calliphoridae larva (Protophormia sp.) that seems more out of a C-rated science fiction movie than nature. It reminds me of both a freakish Star Wars character and a Muppet at the same . . . → Leer más: Monstruos Muppets

Afortunadamente, No soy un escarabajo

Because I would have been subjected to this. Talk about animal cruelty! Aceptar, just kidding, but this story is a bit ridiculous. The article states that the scientists had used the voice of Limbaugh because it wasreadily available”, not because they hated him. Well that turns out not to be true, they chose Rush . . . → Leer más: Afortunadamente, No soy un escarabajo