Ģēnijs Preses 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 . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Ģēnijs Preses XXII

Balso par Shark saglabāšanas!

Fellow tīkls blogger Deivids Shiffman ir gala apļi $10,000 stipendija izaicinājums. Nauda ne tikai atbalstīt Dāvida blogošana pie Southern Fried Science, bet haizivs aizsardzības pētījumu (tostarp konkursā nosaukt haizivs viņš atzīmēt ar līdzekļiem). Veltiet laiku un balsot par viņu, reizi 24 stundas! . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Balso par Shark saglabāšanas!

Preses ģēnijs 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.

Ģēnijs Preses XX

Tas GOP ir mazāk izaicinājumu un vairāk vienkāršu Roundup niecīgu akciju fotogrāfijas. Alex Wild un citi jau sen norādīja masveida trūkumus daudzu akciju foto vietnēs – bet šeit ir īss un sāpīga lep Roundup, izmantojot Google.

Step 1: Attēlu meklēšana “kode uz ziedu”.

Step 2: . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Ģēnijs Preses XX

Pirmdiena kode

ANSWER: This wasn’t easybut this large and beautiful moth was from Australia and is in the family 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 . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Pirmdiena kode

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

 

 

Preses ģēnijs 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? Es ne saiti uz visu rakstu diezgan vēl jo labi zināms Lepidopterist jau . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Preses ģēnijs XVIII

Atklāts noslēpums

Labi – 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 . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Atklāts noslēpums

Pirmdienas noslēpums

 

Saskāros ar šo puisi citā dienā, atrodoties laukā, kas šeit notiek? Punkti, kas tiek piešķirti par ordeni / ģimeni / ģints – bet pat šīs grupas eksperti vēl nevar noteikt sugu.

 

(everyone in the field with me should hold . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Pirmdienas noslēpums

Genius of the Press 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 . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Genius of the Press XVII