Beetle od zanimivem času

Kot sem fotografiral in databsing na Cicindelinae iz zbirk Denver Museum of Nature & Znanost sem prišel čez to vzorcu zbrani na 10. junij 1921, Chicago Illinois. Hrošč je Cicindela hirticollis hirticollis (bi bilo drzno označeni ssp rhodensis saj zlahka intergrade vzdolž svojih meja) in je ena . . . → Preberite več: Beetle od zanimivem času

Sexy, Sexy Beer Bottles

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 . . . → Preberite več: Sexy, Sexy Beer Bottles

Net-Winged Beetle

Te velike in zanimive Lycidae hrošči (Lycus fernandezi) je bilo v izobilju v jugovzhodni Arizoni pred nekaj tedni. Nenehno, ki leti med cvetje in vlažnem pesku so bili zaradi česar za enostavno fotografiranje ciljev. Pomislil sem “Tukaj je odlična priložnost, da ujeti hrošča vzletanje!”.

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Lycus fernandezi (Lycidae)

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Mystery Revelaed

v redu – 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 . . . → Preberite več: Mystery Revelaed