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By Chris Grinter, on March 27th, 2014% Things have been quiet here for quite a while – mostly because I’ve been inundated with work (always a good thing). But I have also recently joined the party eight years late to the Twitter train. For daily images of cool insects please follow me over there @skepticalmoth. Of course some stories require . → Read More: Follow me on Twitter By Chris Grinter, on February 3rd, 2014% As I was photographing and databsing the Cicindelinae from the collections of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science I came across this specimen collected on the 10th June 1921, Chicago Illinois. The beetle is Cicindela hirticollis hirticollis (could be a boldly marked ssp rhodensis as they readily intergrade along their boundaries) and is one . → Read More: A beetle from an interesting time By Chris Grinter, on October 21st, 2013% This beautiful animal is a moth I reared from Quercus palmeri down in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. It’s in the family Gracillariidae and most likely in the genus Acrocercops – according to Dave Wagner it may represent a new species, but that’s not an uncommon thing with small moths. It was fairly abundant, so . → Read More: Monday Moth By Chris Grinter, on December 3rd, 2012% Today’s moth is a stunning micro and another creature from Barb Bartell’s back yard in the Rockies. To the best of my knowledge it’s a species of Mompha (Coleophoridae), probably claudiella,but I don’t have a positive ID on this bug yet. Once I start digging through the micros from this site there are sure to . → Read More: Monday Moth By Chris Grinter, on November 26th, 2012% To reignite the Monday Moth series here is a stunner: Melemaea magdalena (Geometridae). This rare beauty has previously only been known from scattered localities across the mountain west and only from a few individuals every other season. That is until Denver Museum volunteer Barbara Bartell began inventorying moths on her property near Golden . → Read More: Monday Moth By Chris Grinter, on November 24th, 2012% Leave it to Denver to combine two things perfect for this blog – entomology and skepticism! If you haven’t seen these clips then take a second to watch the video above. At the very least this appears to be a real phenomenon, camera crews from the news station were able . → Read More: UFO Swarms Over Denver
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Ag Chris Grinter, on March 27th, 2014% Things have been quiet here for quite a while – mostly because I’ve been inundated with work (always a good thing). But I have also recently joined the party eight years late to the Twitter train. For daily images of cool insects please follow me over there @skepticalmoth. Of course some stories require . . . → Read More: Lean mé ar Twitter Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 14 Márta, 2013% Is breá liom ag tochailt tríd an poll abyssal ar an idirlíon mire mar a rachaidh mé chun GEMS mar seo a aimsiú: An Mothman ar Mars? Nasctha sa 'earra’ Is grianghraf Rover NASA Fiosracht, Mastcam Ceart. Grianghraf tógtha ar 21 Feabhra 2013. An charraig siad ag caint faoi mar a “mothman” i thaobh na láimhe clé uachtair . . . → Read More: An Mothman cuairt ar Mhars Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, an 16 Nollaig, 2012% Cúpla mí ó shin go leor de tú shiúil dócha ar fud an meme – an cáiliúil Poodle Leamhan! Agus go deimhin don chuid is mó a bhí an tuairisciú leath réasúnta. Is ea, tá sé fíor-. Is ea, tá sé ina moth. Is ea, is dócha go bhfuil speiceas sa Lasiocampidae (b'fhéidir, an Artace ghéineas) mar a dúirt i gceart ag an Dr. John Rawlins. . . . → Read More: An Leamhan Poodle agus an Fadhb na Cryptozoology Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 24 Samhain, 2012% Fág go Denver a chur le chéile dhá rud idéalach chun an bhlag seo – feithideolaíocht amhras! Más rud é nach bhfuil tú ag feiceáil ar na clips a chur ansin an dara chun féachaint ar na físeáin thuas. Ar a laghad is cosúil seo a bheith ina feiniméan fíor, foirne ceamara ón stáisiún nuacht bhí siad in ann . . . → Read More: Deaglán saithí Thar Denver Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 26ú Aibreán, 2012% Tá an nuacht áitiúil don chuid is mó de na Stáit Aontaithe thoir agus Ceanada curtha aflutter (Tá) le déanaí le tuarascálacha na irruption de Vanessa Atalanta – an féileacán Red Aimiréil. Cé go bhfuil sé seo le tarlú coiteann gach earrach do na féileacáin ag dul ar imirce ó thuaidh óna forais overwintering sna Stáit Aontaithe ó dheas, . . . → Read More: An ionradh ar an Féileacáin Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 16ú Samhain, 2011% Mé díreach tar éis ar ais ó Chumann entomological Mheiriceá comhdháil bhliantúil i Reno, Nevada! Tá sé an gcruinniú is mó dá leithéid ar domhan, le níos mó ná 4,000 lucht freastail ó gach tráth den saol taighde feithidí. Tá mo leasanna i Systematics, cainteanna éabhlóid agus bithéagsúlacht – agus beidh mé iarracht a recap roinnt de na . . . → Read More: Bugs i Reno: ESA 2011 Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 9 Samhain, 2011% Ba chóir dúinn a cheiliúradh ar fad an lá seo le gníomh na heolaíochta nó amhras. Plandaí an síol fiosrúcháin agus smaointeoireacht chriticiúil, nó a chur i láthair a leathnú do dhearcadh féin. Bhí mé suas roimh breacadh an lae ar maidin agus faire na réaltaí maidin céimnithe taobh thiar de na solas na gréine ag ardú. Thug sé chun cuimhne mo . . . → Read More: Breithlá shona, Carl Sagan. Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 17 Deireadh Fómhair, 2011% CNN Tá léim anois ar an bandwagon de bashing FOX-esque maoinithe eolaíochta. Tuairisceoir Erin Burnett “Tuarascálacha” ar mhaoiniú cónaidhme de $5.7 milliún dollar chun cabhrú le troid leis an ionrach Donn Marmorated stink Bug (Halys Halyomorpha). Tá searbhas Burnett ar beagnach tiubh go leor chun a bhriseadh i leibhéil SNL na ridiculousness, ach is cosúil sí fíor ina . . . → Read More: Stink Bug stink Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 30 Meán Fómhair, 2011% Today marks a sad day in Physics history, the Tevatron accelerator at Fermi Lab in Batavia Illinois was powered down for the last time. Once the second most powerful accelerator in the world (and most powerful in the USA), the new LHC has made this beautiful machine obsolete. I can only assume the teams of . . . → Read More: The end of an era Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, on September 13th, 2011% This is a pretty epic fail. I guess the “young adult” publishing guidelines are less strict with “facts”. Thanks to Richard Lee Brown for first posting this on Facebook. Cosúil le seo:Cosúil le Loading… Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ...