De Chris Grinter, on March 15th, 2012% 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 from “The Nation” story is a far cry from a . . . → Citeste mai mult: Genius de Presă XXII
De Chris Grinter, pe 22 noiembrie, 2011% Fellow network blogger David Shiffman is in the final laps of a $10,000 Bursa provocare. The money will not only support David’s blogging at Southern Fried Science, dar cercetarea conservării rechin (inclusiv un concurs pentru a numi rechin va eticheta cu fonduri). Take a moment and vote for him, o dată la fiecare 24 oră! . . . → Citeste mai mult: Vot pentru Conservarea Shark!
De Chris Grinter, on September 13th, 2011% This is a pretty epic fail. I guess the “young adult” publishing guidelines are less strict with “facts”.
Thanks to Richard Lee Brown for first posting this on Facebook.
De Chris Grinter, on August 19th, 2011% This GOP is less of a challenge and more of a simple roundup of miserable stock photography. Alex Wild and others have long ago pointed out the massive failings of many stock photo sites – but here is a brief and painful lep roundup using Google.
Step 1: Image search “moth on flower”.
Step 2: . . . → Citeste mai mult: Genius de presă XX
De Chris Grinter, pe 15 August, 2011% RĂSPUNS: Acest lucru nu a fost ușor – dar acest molie mare și frumos a fost din Australia și este în familie Xyloryctidae (Philarista sp.). Avem o mana de reprezentanți ai acestui grup aici, în SUA și Ted MacRae peste pe Gândacii în Bush are câteva fotografii mari ale acestora. Cumva cred că . . . → Citeste mai mult: Luni Moth
De Chris Grinter, pe 22 iulie, 2011% It’s been a little while since the last GOP challenge, but this is a softball. Sper că au fost prea leneși să găsească o imagine mai potrivită…
De Chris Grinter, on May 7th, 2011%
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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: Genius of the Press XVIII
De Chris Grinter, pe 6 aprilie, 2011% Bine – 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 . . . → Citeste mai mult: Mystery Revelaed
De Chris Grinter, pe 4 aprilie, 2011%
A venit peste acest tip în timp ce în domeniul ieri, ce se petrece aici? Punctele acordate pentru Ordinul / Familie / Genus – dar chiar și experți în acest grup nu pot da seama specia destul de încă.
(everyone in the field with me should hold . . . → Citeste mai mult: Luni mister
De Chris Grinter, pe 22 martie, 2011% 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 carefully – but this week I even came . . . → Citeste mai mult: Genius de presă XVII
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