Mardikas alates huvitav aeg

Kuna olin pildistanud ja databsing Cicindelinae kogudest Denver Museum of Nature & Teadus ma leidsin selle proovis 10. juuni 1921, Chicago Illinois. Mardikas on Cicindela hirticollis hirticollis (võiks julgelt märgitud ssp rhodensis kuna nad kergesti intergrade koos oma piire) ja üks . . . → Loe edasi: Mardikas alates huvitav aeg

Seksikas, Seksikad õllepudelid

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 . . . → Loe edasi: Seksikas, Seksikad õllepudelid

Võrgutiivaline mardikas

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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Ilmunud mõistatus

Korras – 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 . . . → Loe edasi: Ilmunud mõistatus