Pirmdiena kode

ANSWER: This wasn’t easybut 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 . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Pirmdiena kode

Pirmdiena kode

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 feet (which was just bruned to a crisp). Hopefully the fire was not . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Pirmdiena kode

Pirmdiena kode

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 LAalthough in recent decades the numbers of this moth have been declining with habitat destruction and the invasion of beach grass (Ammophila arenaria). Bet . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Pirmdiena kode

Pirmdiena kode

Es turpināšu ritināt bumbu ar šo sēriju un mēģināšu padarīt to regulārāku. Es arī pievērsīšos tam, lai katru nedēļu izceltu jaunu sugu no milzīgajām kolekcijām šeit, Kalifornijas Zinātņu akadēmijā. Tam vajadzētu sniegt man pietiekami daudz materiāla… vismaz dažus simtus gadu.

Grammia . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Pirmdiena kode

Ričards Brensons ir idiots

 

Avots: Wikipedia

Izrādās, ka Ričardam Brensonam ir jauna ideja; lai izglābtu gredzenastes lemuru (Lemur catta) by importing them to his private British Virgin Island. Kā norādīts rakstā, Brensons iztērēja miljoniem mārciņu un gadiem ilgi pūlējās, lai pārvērstu salu par “the most ecologically . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Ričards Brensons ir idiots

Atklāts noslēpums

Labi – 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 . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Atklāts noslēpums

Aplēses Global sugu daudzveidību

This recent article in the American Naturalist has taken a second look at some of the famously inflated species estimates, daži iet augsta kā 100 miljoni (Erwin, 1988). Aplēses autoru veiktie norāda, ka prognozes iepriekš 30 miljoni ir varbūtības <0.00001. To lēsts diapazons ir vairāk iespējams, ir starp 2.5 un . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Aplēses Global sugu daudzveidību

Aquamoth part 3

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

Aquamoth part 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 . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Aquamoth part 2

Aquamoth!

Vēl viens pārsteidzošs dzīvnieks no Havaju salām – pilnīgi desanta kāpurs (publicēta martā 22 PNAS). Lai gan ir maz ūdens Lepidoptera, visi no tiem ir žaunas, kas uztur tos attiecina tikai uz ūdens (prātā, jūs, mēs runājam tikai par kāpuru stadijā). Ja viņu straume izžūst, tāpēc nav kāpurs. . . . → Lasīt vairāk: Aquamoth!