It-tnejn Moth

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 . . . → Aqra Aktar: It-tnejn Moth

It-tnejn Moth

Chiricahua multidentata (Kamla geometer)

Il-kamla ta 'dan it-Tnejn hija speċi spettakolari mill-muntanji ta' Arizona – Chiricahua multidentata, a Geometrid. L-uniku post magħruf għal din l-ispeċi jinsab fil-quċċata tal-muntanji Chiricahua hawn fuq 9,000 saqajn (li kien biss bruned għal iqarmeċ). Hopefully the fire was not . . . → Aqra Aktar: It-tnejn Moth

It-tnejn Moth

I’ll keep the ball rolling with Arctiinae and post a photo today of Ctenucha brunnea. Din il-kamla tista 'tkun komuni f'ħaxix għoli tul il-bajjiet minn San Francisco sa LA – għalkemm fl-aħħar deċennji n-numri ta’ din il-kamla kienu qed jonqsu bil-qerda tal-ħabitat u l-invażjoni tal-ħaxix tal-bajja (Ammophila arenaria). Imma . . . → Aqra Aktar: It-tnejn Moth

It-tnejn Moth

Jien ser iżommu l-ballun rolling ma 'din is-serje u jippruvaw jagħmluha aktar regolari. I se tiffoka wkoll fuq l-importanza speċi ġodda kull ġimgħa mill-kollezzjonijiet massiva hawn fl-Akkademja tax-Xjenzi California. Dan għandu jagħti me biżżejjed materjal għall… mill-inqas ftit mijiet ta 'snin.

Grammia . . . → Aqra Aktar: It-tnejn Moth

Richard Branson huwa idjota

 

Sors: Wikipedija

Jirriżulta li Richard Branson għandu idea ġdida; biex isalva l-Lemur denbu-ring (Catta Lemur) billi timporta biex privata Britannika tiegħu Virgin Island. Kif tosserva l-artikolu Branson jintefqu miljuni ta 'liri u snin ta' sforz biex inbiddlu l-gżira fis “the most ecologically . . . → Aqra Aktar: Richard Branson huwa idjota

misteru Revelaed

kollox sew – 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 . . . → Aqra Aktar: misteru Revelaed

Stimi ta 'Global Speċi Diversità

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 u . . . → Aqra Aktar: Stimi ta 'Global Speċi Diversità

Parti Aquamoth 3

Kontinwazzjoni tas-serje aquamoth, this time with video from Science Friday! Iva, Għandi ngħaqqadha għax wordpress mhux se jinkorpora… Grazzi Ted, dehret!

Parti Aquamoth 2

I sab il-full-test PDF tal-artiklu kamla anfibji u estratti-siġra li turi l-radjazzjoni ta 'dan il-grupp ta' speċi u l-evoluzzjoni probabbli tal-karatteristiċi anfibji. Interessanti li wieħed jinnota l-forma każ, u kull kamla hija endemika għal vulkan tagħha stess fl-arċipelagu ħawajjan.

This is a Bayesian analysis of . . . → Aqra Aktar: Parti Aquamoth 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. . . . → Aqra Aktar: Aquamoth!