Nace un fantasma

Bienvenidos al nuevo año, y casi un año de los blogs! Es increíble lo rápido que el tiempo voló por, pero de nuevo, siempre lo hace. Como usted probablemente ha notado diciembre resultó ser mi más débil meses mensaje con la friolera 2 Mensajes. Resolución: más posting!

Ahora no he empezado un blog sobre música (para aquellos . . . → Leer más: Nace un fantasma

Biología de un Santo

Esta polilla es casi tan raro como su homónimo paranormal (excepto que es real) – es un Gazoryctra sp. en la familia Hepialidae. Ellos representan un linaje basal de los lepidópteros y se conocen comúnmente como mariposas nocturnas o polillas fantasmas veloces. Fantasma – because males of some species are known to fly in . . . → Leer más: Biología de un Santo

Just too Easy

Naturalmente, it was named Phallus drewsii. This comes form the list of the top 10 species named in 2009, complied by Arizona State University (not a very good list if 7 of my new species weren’t on there…). While I tend to avoid phallic and O’Keeffesque botany, this one I couldn’t resist because it . . . → Leer más: Just too Easy

Taxonomía Falla

Recently came across some ridiculously horrible taxonomy from China (.pdf). If you scroll down a bit you can see the english translation. At first glance this looks like a standard taxonomy paper with bare-bones species descriptions. You might even think to yourself, “huh, wonder why they are describing species from only one specimen”. Not the . . . → Leer más: Taxonomía Falla

I may drive too much

The clouds broke this afternoon in San Francisco and the sun began to shine. The upcoming warm weather induced an all too familiar feeling, one that I should be out collecting insects and not sitting indoors! While I have already been to a handful of places this spring, I have a long season of collecting . . . → Leer más: I may drive too much

aquamoth!

Another amazing animal from Hawaiia completely amphibious caterpillar (published in the March 22 PNAS). While there are a few aquatic Lepidoptera, all of them have gills that keep them restricted to the water (mind you, we are talking only about the larval stage). If their stream dries up, so does the caterpillar. . . . → Leer más: aquamoth!

Publicación inaugural

Tan, how do I begin a new blog? Tough question, but perhaps this is a good time to show off a fun new species. This moth was collected last year outside of Santa Barbara, California. The massive wingspan, at 15mm, makes it pretty large for a Gelechiid moth. The genus, Gnorimoschema (pronounced nor-a-mosh-ma), . . . → Leer más: Publicación inaugural