Senin Moth

MENJAWAB: Ini tidak mudah – tapi ngengat besar dan cantik ini berasal dari Australia dan termasuk dalam famili 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 . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Senin Moth

Senin Moth

Chiricahua multidentata (Geometridae)

This Monday’s moth is a spectacular species from the mountains of ArizonaChiricahua multidentata, a Geometrid. The only known location for this species is at the very top of the Chiricahua mountains above 9,000 kaki (which was just bruned to a crisp). Hopefully the fire was not . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Senin Moth

Senin Moth

Aku akan terus bola menggelinding dengan Arctiinae dan posting foto hari ini Ctenucha brunnea. Ngengat ini dapat umum di rerumputan tinggi di sepanjang pantai dari San Francisco ke LA – meskipun dalam beberapa dekade terakhir jumlah ngengat ini telah menurun dengan perusakan habitat dan invasi rumput pantai (Arenaria Ammophila). Tapi . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Senin Moth

Senin Moth

Saya akan terus menggelindingkan bola dengan seri ini dan mencoba membuatnya lebih teratur. Saya juga akan fokus menyoroti spesies baru setiap minggu dari koleksi besar di sini di Akademi Ilmu Pengetahuan California. Ini seharusnya memberi saya bahan yang cukup untuk… setidaknya beberapa ratus tahun.

Grammia . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Senin Moth

Richard Branson adalah seorang Idiot

 

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 intothe most ecologically . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Richard Branson adalah seorang Idiot

Mystery Revelaed

Oke – 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 . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Mystery Revelaed

Perkiraan Global Species Diversity

Artikel ini baru-baru ini di Naturalist Amerika telah mengambil kedua melihat beberapa perkiraan spesies terkenal meningkat, beberapa akan setinggi 100 juta (Erwin, 1988). Perkiraan yang dilakukan oleh penulis menunjukkan bahwa proyeksi di atas 30 juta memiliki probabilitas <0.00001. Rentang perkiraan mereka lebih mungkin antara 2.5 dan . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Perkiraan Global Species Diversity

Bagian ngengat air 3

A continuation of the aquamoth series, this time with video from Science Friday! Ya, I have to link it because wordpress won’t embedThanks Ted, figured it out!

Bagian ngengat air 2

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 . . . → Baca selengkapnya: Bagian ngengat air 2

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!