On a brisk 37 degree morning in Northern Illinois I decided to dust off my camera and explore the progress of “spring”. I hit Rollins Savanna Forest Preserve by 6:30La, just in time for first light to melt the patchy frost. A week and a half ago temps were pushing the upper 80’s and summer . . . → Citeste mai mult: Prairie pe un Cold Spring Morning
 Comentariile sunt închise  Diverse  Aves, Birds, Illinois, Non-Insecte, Fotografie, Prairie, Rollins Savanna Over on Arthropoda, fellow SFS blogger Michael Bok shared an image of his field buddy, Plugg the green tree frog. My first thought was of a similar tree frog that haunted welcomed me everywhere I went in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. Needless to say, Costa Rica instills a sudden habit of double checking . . . → Citeste mai mult: Frog Surprise Trimiteți acest! Comentariile sunt închise Diverse Costa Rica, Field Work, Frogs, Pericole de colectare, Janzen, Non-Insecte, Santa Rosa National Park I’ve known for a while that beetles and other inverts occasionally have vertebrates on their menu, but I didn’t really know how large of an animal they could subdue! Even when the odd mantis grabs a hummingbird the size difference is not as substantial as is shown below. This impressive video was . . . → Citeste mai mult: Take that, vertebrates! Trimiteți acest! 7 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Gandaci, Entomologie, Mass-media, Non-Insecte, Predation
Source: Wikipedia It turns out that Richard Branson has a new idea; to save the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) by importing them to his private British Virgin Island. As the article points out Branson spent millions of pounds and years of effort to turn the island into “the most ecologically . . . → Citeste mai mult: Richard Branson is an Idiot Trimiteți acest! 8 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Scepticism Bad Știință, Conservare, Mass-media, Non-Insecte, Specie
Perhaps the only place in the world where you can find an American bison (vs. buffalo) standing near a beach next to a palm tree. The week on Santa Catalina was an wonderful one, and despite a cool spring with a few unseasonable frosts, some decent collecting was done. Here are just . . . → Citeste mai mult: The Bison of Catalina Trimiteți acest! 2 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Diverse Bison, Catalina Island, Conservare, Endemic Species, Islands, Non-Insecte For those Californians reading, especially those in the south, keep an eye out for this beautiful little spider, Latrodectus geometricus – the brown widow. Arachnologists at UC Riverside are monitoring the spread of this invasive species. Ironically it turns out to not be as dangerous as our native black widow. cu toate acestea, it is not . . . → Citeste mai mult: Have you seen me? Trimiteți acest! 2 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Entomologie, Speciile invazive, Non-Insecte, Păianjenii For the last four weekends now I have been on a goose chase, for one moth, Heliolonche celeris. It’s a beautiful small Noctuidae with pinkish forewings and stunning orange-red hindwings. It isn’t very often encountered and only found along the northern California mountain ranges feeding on Malacothrix floccifera – a CA endemic flower. Every trip . . . → Citeste mai mult: The Art of a Goose Chase Trimiteți acest! 10 comentarii - (Comentariile sunt închise) Entomologie Entomologie, Flori, Pericole de colectare, lepidoptere, Molii, Non-Insecte A 15 foot gray whale just washed up in the San Francisco Bay. Now is our chance for exploding whale part 2! Trimiteți acest! |
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