A ghost is born

Welcome to the new year, and nearly a full year of blogging! It’s amazing how fast the time flew by, but again it always does. As you likely noticed December turned out to be my weakest posting month with a whopping 2 posts. Resolution: more posting!

Now I haven’t started blogging about music (for those . . . → Baca selengkapnya: A ghost is born

Biologi Ghost

Ngengat ini hanya sekitar sebagai langka seperti senama paranormal yang (kecuali bahwa itu nyata) – itu adalah Gazoryctra sp. dalam keluarga Hepialidae. Mereka mewakili keturunan basal dari Lepidoptera dan umumnya dikenal sebagai ngengat hantu atau ngengat cepat. Hantu – karena laki-laki dari beberapa spesies yang diketahui terbang . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Biologi Ghost

Just too Easy

Naturally, 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 . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Just too Easy

Taksonomi Gagal

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 . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Taksonomi Gagal

Saya dapat mendorong terlalu banyak

Awan pecah sore ini di San Francisco dan matahari mulai bersinar. Cuaca hangat akan datang disebabkan perasaan terlalu akrab, salah satu yang saya harus keluar mengumpulkan serangga, bukan duduk di dalam ruangan! Sementara saya sudah pernah ke beberapa tempat musim semi ini, Saya memiliki musim yang panjang pengumpulan . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Saya dapat mendorong terlalu banyak

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. . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Aquamoth!

Inaugural post

Jadi, 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, CA. The massive wingspan, at 15mm, makes it pretty large for a Gelechiid moth. The genus, Gnorimoschema (pronounced nor-a-mosh-ma), . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Inaugural post