The 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 . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Seksuāla, Seksīgas alus pudeles
 4 komentāri - (Komentāri ir slēgti)  Entomoloģija  Austrālija, Alus, Vaboles, Uzvedība, Coleoptera, Entomoloģija, Humors 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) . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Net-Winged Beetle Dalīties! 2 komentāri - (Komentāri ir slēgti) Entomoloģija Arizona, Vaboles, Coleoptera, Entomoloģija, Fotografēšana Esmu zināms, bet kas vaboles un citi Inverts reizēm ir mugurkaulnieku par to izvēlnē, bet man nav īsti zināt, cik liela dzīvnieka viņi varētu savaldīt! Pat tad, ja nepāra dievlūdzējs greiferi kolibri izmēru atšķirība nav tik būtiska, kā ir parādīts zemāk. This impressive video was . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Pieņemt, ka, mugurkaulnieki! Dalīties! 7 komentāri - (Komentāri ir slēgti) Entomoloģija Vaboles, Entomoloģija, Mediju, Non-Kukaiņi, Izstumšanas Pirms dažām nedēļām man bija uzaicināta pievienoties Berkeley Entomoloģijas klase, kas šajā jomā, lai nedēļas nogalē. Mūsu galamērķis bija Blue Oak Ranch Reserve; viens no jaunākajiem rezervju Kalifornijas universitātes sistēmas, kas atrodas netālu no San Jose Mount Hamilton (karti zemāk). Tas bija . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Blue Oak Ranch rezervāts Dalīties! Komentāri ir slēgti Entomoloģija Vaboles, Berkeley, Entomoloģija, Kodes, Fotografēšana, Zirnekļi, University of California Labi – 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 . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Atklāts noslēpums Dalīties! Viens komentārs - (Komentāri ir slēgti) Entomoloģija Vaboles, Coleoptera, Izcīņa, Entomoloģija, Scaphinotus, Snail, Suga 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 . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Muppet Monstri Dalīties!Because I would have been subjected to this. Talk about animal cruelty! Labi, 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 . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Par laimi, I’m not a beetle Dalīties! |
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