Sexy, Garagardo botila sexyak

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 . . . → Gehiago irakurri: Sexy, Garagardo botila sexyak

Goranzko mikrokosmosa

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The microscopic insect world is a very different one from ours and we rarely are given glimpses into it. Thanks in part to the impressive Phantom camera system and the Flight Artists project researchers have filmed the minute (1mm!) Trichogramma wasp (Chalcidoidea) in flight. These insects are . . . → Gehiago irakurri: Goranzko mikrokosmosa

Astelehena sits

 

Aste honetan sits dantza mikro baten bideo bat Filipinetatik da (Warren Laurde hartu). Susmoa bezala, hau estaltzea dela headstand nahiko ikusgarria batean bukatzen pantaila da. Badira beste microleps asko duten dantza edo pantaila portaera, baina ia ez dago beste bideoak ez dira online . . . → Gehiago irakurri: Astelehena sits

Biology of a Ghost

This moth is just about as rare as its paranormal namesake (except that it’s real) – it’s a Gazoryctra sp. in the family Hepialidae. They represent a basal lineage of the Lepidoptera and are commonly known as ghost moths or swift moths. Ghostbecause males of some species are known to fly in . . . → Gehiago irakurri: Biology of a Ghost