ANSWER: This wasn’t easy – but this large and beautiful moth was from Australia and is in the family Xyloryctidae (Philarista sp.). We have a handful of representatives of this group here in the US and Ted MacRae over on Beetles in the Bush has a few great photographs of them. Somehow I think we . . . → Opširnije: Ponedjeljak Moljac
 8 Komentari - (Komentari su zatvoreni)  Entomologija  Kalifornijska akademija znanosti, Borba, Entomologija, Moljci, Fotografija, Vrsta Chiricahua multidentata (grbice) This Monday’s moth is a spectacular species from the mountains of Arizona – Chiricahua multidentata, a Geometrid. The only known location for this species is at the very top of the Chiricahua mountains above 9,000 stopala (which was just bruned to a crisp). Hopefully the fire was not . . . → Opširnije: Ponedjeljak Moljac Podijelite ovu!I’ll keep the ball rolling with Arctiinae and post a photo today of Ctenucha brunnea. This moth can be common in tall grasses along beaches from San Francisco to LA – although in recent decades the numbers of this moth have been declining with habitat destruction and the invasion of beach grass (Ammophila arenaria). Ali . . . → Opširnije: Ponedjeljak Moljac Podijelite ovu! Jedan komentar - (Komentari su zatvoreni) Entomologija Kalifornijska akademija znanosti, Entomologija, Leptiri, Ponedjeljak Moljac, Moljci, Vrsta Ja ću zadržati loptu valjanje u ovoj seriji i pokušati napraviti što više redovito. Također ću se usredotočiti na isticanje nove vrste svaki tjedan od golemih zbirki ovdje na California Academy of Sciences. To nam daje dovoljno materijala za… barem nekoliko stotina godina. Grammia . . . → Opširnije: Ponedjeljak Moljac Podijelite ovu! Jedan komentar - (Komentari su zatvoreni) Entomologija Kalifornijska akademija znanosti, Prikupljanje, Ekologija, Entomologija, Izumrli, Leptiri, Ponedjeljak Moljac, Moljci, Vrsta
Izvor: Wikipedija Ispada da Richard Branson ima novu ideju; spasiti prstenastog lemura (Lemur catta) uvozeći ih na njegov privatni britanski Djevičanski otok. Kako se u članku ističe, Branson je potrošio milijune funti i godine napora kako bi pretvorio otok “najekološkiji . . . → Opširnije: Richard Branson je idiot Podijelite ovu! 8 Komentari - (Komentari su zatvoreni) Skepticizam Loša znanost, Konzervacija, Medij, Non-Kukci, Vrsta u redu – 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 . . . → Opširnije: Mystery Revelaed Podijelite ovu! Jedan komentar - (Komentari su zatvoreni) Entomologija Buba, Coleoptera, Borba, Entomologija, Scaphinotus, Snail, Vrsta This recent article in the American Naturalist has taken a second look at some of the famously inflated species estimates, some going high as 100 million (Erwin, 1988). Estimates conducted by the authors indicate that projections above 30 million have probabilities of <0.00001. Their estimated range is more likely to be between 2.5 i . . . → Opširnije: Estimates of Global Species Diversity Podijelite ovu!A continuation of the aquamoth series, this time with video from Science Friday! Da, I have to link it because wordpress won’t embed… Hvala Ted, figured it out! Podijelite ovu! 2 Komentari - (Komentari su zatvoreni) Entomologija Prikupljanje, Entomologija, Leptiri, Moljci, Vrsta I came across the full-text PDF of the amphibious moth article and extracted the tree showing the radiation of this species group and probable evolution of the amphibious traits. Interesting to note the case shape, and each moth is endemic to its own volcano in the Hawaiian archipelago. This is a Bayesian analysis of . . . → Opširnije: Aquamoth part 2 Podijelite ovu!Another amazing animal from Hawaii – a 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 (imajte na umu, we are talking only about the larval stage). If their stream dries up, so does the caterpillar. . . . → Opširnije: Aquamoth! Podijelite ovu! |
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