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By Chris Grinter, on March 31st, 2012% On a brisk 37 degree morning in Northern Illinois I decided to dust off my camera and explore the progress of “spring”. I hit Rollins Savanna Forest Preserve by 6:30am, just in time for first light to melt the patchy frost. A week and a half ago temps were pushing the upper 80′s and summer . → Read More: Prairie on a Cold Spring Morning By Chris Grinter, on March 19th, 2012% Back to the Monday Moth! This beautiful insect is Stiria dyari (Noctuidae) collected on a February trip outside of Cataviña, Baja California Mexico. I believe the host plants are still unknown, but all of the moths in the genus Stiria have these brilliant yellow forewings that help camouflage them on the stem . → Read More: Monday Moth By Chris Grinter, on March 15th, 2012% Back from hiatus and back to the Genius of the Press insect-news-failure series! Fresh off the presses from last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the UK was shut down for a massive infestation of clothes moths. The picture shown here from “The Nation” story is a far cry from a . → Read More: Genius of the Press XXII By Chris Grinter, on March 12th, 2012% As I’m sure you’ve noticed things have been awfully quiet around here for the last two months. Most of January I was busy with a move, from San Francisco to Chicago. Unfortunately the foundation that was supporting my work at the California Academy of Sciences had some tough financial calls to make and my position . → Read More: Back to Blogging!
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Ag Chris Grinter, on March 31st, 2012% On a brisk 37 degree morning in Northern Illinois I decided to dust off my camera and explore the progress of “spring”. I hit Rollins Savanna Forest Preserve by 6:30ag an, just in time for first light to melt the patchy frost. A week and a half ago temps were pushing the upper 80’s and summer . . . → Read More: Prairie on a Cold Spring Morning Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 18 Iúil, 2011% Over on Arthropoda, fellow SFS blogger Michael Bok shared an image of his field buddy, Plugg the green tree frog. Bhí mo chéad smaoineamh de frog crann cosúil leis ciaptha fáilte roimh a dom i ngach áit chuaigh mé i Santa Rosa Páirc Náisiúnta, Costa Rica. Gá é a rá, Costa Rica instills an nós tobann seiceáil dúbailte . . . → Read More: Frog Surprise Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, on June 7th, 2011% I’ve known for a while that beetles and other inverts occasionally have vertebrates on their menu, but I didn’t really know how large of an animal they could subdue! Even when the odd mantis grabs a hummingbird the size difference is not as substantial as is shown below. This impressive video was . . . → Read More: Take that, vertebrates! Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 19 Aibreán, 2011% Foinse: Wikipedia Casadh sé amach go bhfuil Richard Branson smaoineamh nua; a shábháil ar an lemur fáinne-tailed (Lemur catta) trí iad a iompórtáil a príobháideach Bhriotanacha na Maighdean Oileáin. Mar pointí an t-alt amach chaith Branson milliúin punt agus bliana d'iarracht dul ar an oileán i “an cairdiúil is éiceolaíochta . . . → Read More: Is Richard Branson ina leathcheann Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 18 Márta, 2011% B'fhéidir gurb é an áit ach amháin sa domhan nuair is féidir leat teacht ar bíosún Meiriceánach (vs. bíosún) seasamh in aice le trá in aice le crann pailme. Bhí an seachtain ar Santa Catalina amháin iontach, agus in ainneoin an earraigh fionnuar le cúpla frosts neamhshaosúrach, Cuireadh roinnt mhaith bhailiú dhéanamh. Seo iad ach . . . → Read More: An Bison na Catalina Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 25 Bealtaine, 2010% Dóibh siúd Californians léamh, go háirithe iad siúd sa deisceart, coinnigh súil amach do seo Spider beag álainn, Latrodectus geometricus – an bhaintreach donn. Arachnologists ag UC Riverside ag déanamh monatóireachta ar an scaipeadh an speicis seo ionrach. Go híorónta casadh sé amach a bheith chomh contúirteach mar ár bhaintreach dúchais dubh. Mar sin féin, nach bhfuil sé . . . → Read More: An bhfaca tú dom? Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 2 Bealtaine, 2010% I gcás na ceithre seachtaine anuas anois tá mé ar chase gé, do moth amháin, Heliolonche celeris. Tá sé Noctuidae beag álainn le forewings pinkish agus hindwings oráiste-dearg néal. Níl sé a bhíonn go minic agus fuair sé ach amháin ar feadh na sliabhraonta thuaidh California bheathú ar Malacothrix floccifera – bláth endemic CA. Gach turas . . . → Read More: An Ealaín de Chase Goose Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, 21ú Aibreán, 2010% A 15 míol mór liath chos nite suas díreach ar an San Francisco Bay. Anois tá ár n-deis do exploding chuid míol mór 2! Cosúil le seo:Cosúil le Loading… Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ...