그만큼 2011 Ig Nobel ceremony took place yesterday at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The award is sponsored by Improbable Research, an organization that gathers fascinating, odd, and outright hilarious research papers that triumph the idea that not all science is boring. Among this year’s distinguished recipients was fellow entomologist and blogger David Rentz, who received the . . . → 자세히보기: 섹시한, 섹시한 맥주병
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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 myself “here is a great opportunity to catch a beetle taking off!”. Wait for it… Lycus fernandezi (Lycidae) . . . → 자세히보기: Net-Winged Beetle 이 항목을 공유!I’ve known for a while that beetles and other inverts occasionally have vertebrates on their menu, but I didn’t really know how large of an animal they could subdue! Even when the odd mantis grabs a hummingbird the size difference is not as substantial as is shown below. This impressive video was . . . → 자세히보기: Take that, vertebrates! 이 항목을 공유!몇 주 전 나는 주말에 필드에 버클리 곤충학 클래스를 초대했다. 우리의 목적지는 블루 오크 목장 준비했다; 마운트 해밀턴에 그냥 샌 호세의 외부에있는 캘리포니아 대학의 시스템에 최신 보유 중 하나 (아래지도). 그것은이었다 . . . → 자세히보기: 블루 오크 목장 준비 제도 이사회 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!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 . . . → 자세히보기: 머펫 몬스터 이 항목을 공유!Because I would have been subjected to this. Talk about animal cruelty! 확인, just kidding, but this story is a bit ridiculous. The article states that the scientists had used the voice of Limbaugh because it was “readily available”, not because they hated him. Well that turns out not to be true, they chose Rush . . . → 자세히보기: 고맙게도, I’m not a beetle 이 항목을 공유! |
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