Понеділок 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 . . . → Детальніше: Понеділок Moth

Понеділок 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 feet (which was just bruned to a crisp). Hopefully the fire was not . . . → Детальніше: Понеділок Moth

Понеділок Moth

Я буду тримати м'яч прокатки з ведмедиць і розмістити фотографію сьогодні про Ctenucha brunnea. Це молі можуть бути загальними у високих трав вздовж пляжів з Сан-Франциско в Лос-Анджелес – хоча в останні десятиліття чисельність цієї метелики знижуються з руйнуванням середовища проживання і вторгнення в пляжному траві (Ammophila Кузіна). Але . . . → Детальніше: Понеділок Moth

Понеділок Moth

I’m going to keep the ball rolling with this series and try to make it more regular. I will also focus on highlighting a new species each week from the massive collections here at the California Academy of Sciences. This should give me enough material forat least a few hundred years.

Grammia . . . → Детальніше: Понеділок Moth

Річард Бренсон Ідіот

 

Джерело: Вікіпедія

Виявляється, що Річард Бренсон нову ідею; щоб зберегти Котячий лемур (Lemur Катта) імпортуючи їх в свою особисту Британські Віргінські острови. Як стаття вказує Бренсон витратили мільйони фунтів і роки зусиль, щоб перетворити острів у “the most ecologically . . . → Детальніше: Річард Бренсон Ідіот

Mystery Revelaed

Добре – 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 . . . → Детальніше: Mystery Revelaed

Estimates of Global Species Diversity

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 і . . . → Детальніше: Estimates of Global Species Diversity

Aquamoth part 3

A continuation of the aquamoth series, this time with video from Science Friday! Та, I have to link it because wordpress won’t embed… Завдяки Тед, 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 . . . → Детальніше: Aquamoth part 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. . . . → Детальніше: Aquamoth!