Genio della Stampa XXII

Back from hiatus and back to the Genius of the Press insect-news-failure series! Fresh off the presses from last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the UK was shut down for a massive infestation of clothes moths. The picture shown here fromThe Nationstory is a far cry from a . . . → Per saperne di più: Genio della Stampa XXII

Vota per la conservazione degli squali!

Fellow network blogger David Shiffman is in the final laps of a $10,000 sfida alla borsa di studio. Il denaro non sosterrà solo il blog di David su Southern Fried Science, ma la ricerca sulla conservazione degli squali (incluso un concorso per nominare lo squalo che taggherà con i fondi). Take a moment and vote for him, una volta ogni 24 orario! . . . → Per saperne di più: Vota per la conservazione degli squali!

Genius of the Press XXI

This is a pretty epic fail. I guess theyoung adultpublishing guidelines are less strict withfacts”.

 

 

 

Thanks to Richard Lee Brown for first posting this on Facebook.

Genio del XX Press

Questo GOP è meno di una sfida e di più di una semplice carrellata di miserabile stock photography. Alex Wild and others have long ago pointed out the massive failings of many stock photo sites – ma ecco una breve e dolorosa carrellata LEP con Google.

Passo 1: Ricerca immagini “falena sul fiore”.

Passo 2: . . . → Per saperne di più: Genio del XX Press

Lunedi Moth

RISPOSTA: Questo non è stato facile – ma questa grande e bella falena era dall'Australia ed è nella famiglia Xyloryctidae (Philarista sp.). We have a handful of representatives of this group here in the US and Ted MacRae over on Beetles in the Bush has a few great photographs of them. Somehow I think we . . . → Per saperne di più: Lunedi Moth

Genius of the Press XIX

It’s been a little while since the last GOP challenge, but this is a softball. I’m hoping they were just too lazy to find a more suitable image

 

 

Genio della stampa XVIII

 

Who can tell me what’s wrong below? Not only is it the obvious photo problem, but the author of the article takes some logical leaps to support his premise. Who can tell me what his logical fallacies are? I won’t link to the entire article quite yet because a well known Lepidopterist has already . . . → Per saperne di più: Genio della stampa XVIII

Mystery Revelaed

Ok – 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 . . . → Per saperne di più: Mystery Revelaed

Lunedì mistero

 

Came across this guy while out in the field the other day, what’s going on here? Points awarded for Order/Family/Genusbut even experts in this group can’t figure out the species quite yet.

 

(everyone in the field with me should hold . . . → Per saperne di più: Lunedì mistero

Genio della stampa XVII

Usually I come across horrible entomology articles regularly enough that I save a backlog for future series. This hasn’t been the case over the last few weeks, I haven’t come across the normal array of terrible media crud. Maybe I just get jaded and stop looking as carefullybut this week I even came . . . → Per saperne di più: Genio della stampa XVII