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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 . . . → Đọc thêm: A ghost is born Chia sẻ! 3 bình luận - (Comments are closed)  Côn trùng  Côn trùng, Bảo tàng thực, Lepidoptera, bướm đêm, Những loài mới, Sierra Nevada This moth is just about as rare as its paranormal namesake (except that it’s real) – it’s a Gazoryctra sp. in the family Hepialidae. They represent a basal lineage of the Lepidoptera and are commonly known as ghost moths or swift moths. Ghost – because males of some species are known to fly in . . . → Đọc thêm: Biology of a Ghost Chia sẻ! 6 bình luận - (Comments are closed) Côn trùng Hành vi, Côn trùng, Lepidoptera, bướm đêm, Những loài mới Tự nhiên, 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 . . . → Đọc thêm: Chỉ là quá dễ dàng Chia sẻ!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 . . . → Đọc thêm: Phân loại thất bại Chia sẻ!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 . . . → Đọc thêm: I may drive too much Chia sẻ! 5 bình luận - (Comments are closed) Côn trùng Thu thập, Côn trùng, Nguy hiểm của Thu, Lepidoptera, bướm đêm, Những loài mới Một loài động vật tuyệt vời khác từ Hawaii – một con sâu bướm lưỡng cư hoàn toàn (xuất bản vào tháng 3 22 PNAS). Trong khi có một số loài Lepidoptera dưới nước, tất cả chúng đều có mang giúp hạn chế chúng ở trong nước (phiền bạn, chúng ta chỉ đang nói về giai đoạn ấu trùng). Nếu luồng của họ cạn kiệt, con sâu bướm cũng vậy. . . . → Đọc thêm: Aquamoth! Chia sẻ!Vì vậy,, 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, NHƯ. The massive wingspan, at 15mm, makes it pretty large for a Gelechiid moth. The genus, Gnorimoschema (pronounced nor-a-mosh-ma), . . . → Đọc thêm: Bài nhậm chức Chia sẻ! |
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