The 2011 Ig Nobel ceremony took place yesterday at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. Premiul este sponsorizat de Cercetare Improbabilă, o organizație care adună fascinant, ciudat, și lucrări de cercetare pur și simplu hilar că triumfa ideea că nu toate știința este plictisitor. Among this year’s distinguished recipients was fellow entomologist and blogger David Rentz, who received the . . . → Citeste mai mult: Sexy, Sticle de bere Sexy
 4 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise)  Entomologie  Australia, Bere, Gandaci, Comportament, Coleoptera, Entomologie, Umor 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) . . . → Citeste mai mult: Net-Winged Beetle Trimiteți acest! 2 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Arizona, Gandaci, Coleoptera, Entomologie, Fotografie 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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: Take that, vertebrates! Trimiteți acest! 7 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Gandaci, Entomologie, Mass-media, Non-Insecte, Predation 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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: Rezervația Blue Oak Ranch Trimiteți acest! Comentariile sunt închise Entomologie Gandaci, Berkeley, Entomologie, Molii, Fotografie, Păianjenii, University of California Bine – 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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: Mystery Revelaed Trimiteți acest! Un comentariu - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Gandaci, Coleoptera, Concurs, Entomologie, Scaphinotus, Snail, Specie 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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: Muppet Monsters Trimiteți acest!Because I would have been subjected to this. Talk about animal cruelty! Bine, 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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: din fericire, nu sunt un gândac Trimiteți acest! |
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