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By Chris Grinter, on June 5th, 2013% I came across this short article today claiming that this recent description of the hairstreak butterfly, Ministrymon janevicroy Glassberg 2013, may in fact be the “last truly distinctive butterfly species left to be discovered in the United States…. [and] the era of new U.S. butterfly species is ending”. I find that statement a little bit . → Read More: The Last Butterfly Described in the US? By Chris Grinter, on May 13th, 2013% The Hop Azure (Celastrina humulus) is a diminutive and uncommon blue found on the front range of the Rockies here in Colorado. Its host plant is the wild hop: Humulus lupulus, varieties of which are of course a critical ingredient in beer! In a week or two I’ll be out in the field looking to . → Read More: A Very Hoppy Butterfly Researcher By Chris Grinter, on February 14th, 2013% By Chris Grinter, on February 7th, 2013% The story of many San Francisco butterflies are well known and depressing. The area has been heavily impacted by human development for over two centuries and is the infamous home to the first known example of an extinct American butterfly, the Xerces blue. While other butterflies are hanging on, or getting help to hang on . → Read More: When Taxonomy Makes a Species Less Critically Endangered By Chris Grinter, on April 26th, 2012% The local news for most of the eastern US and Canada has been aflutter (ha) recently with reports of the irruption of Vanessa atalanta – the Red Admiral butterfly. While this is a common occurrence every spring for these butterflies to migrate north from their overwintering grounds in the southern US, . → Read More: The Invasion of the Butterflies By Chris Grinter, on November 19th, 2011% For all intents and purposes this looks like a blue butterfly (as in subfamily Polyommatinae)… it’s very, very blue after all. But assumptions based on color would lead you down the incorrect road; as it turns out this butterfly is actually a species copper. There are subtle difference in wing shape and probably venation, but . → Read More: A Copper Butterfly in Disguise By Chris Grinter, on October 4th, 2011% A few months ago a magnificent key to the Lepidoptera of Canada (all of them) was published by Jason Dombroskie – a PhD student from the U. of Alberta. The program is available for windows users only so I haven’t had a good chance to explore it yet – but the PDF is available online . → Read More: Key to the Lepidoptera of Canada By Chris Grinter, on September 4th, 2011% Plebejus samuelis We all saw this day coming, the rise of the butterflies, the day they will take vengeance on us. No longer will they passively fly around their habitats as they are bulldozed for malls and polluted with runoff. One particularly angry Karner Blue has submitted a letter to the . → Read More: Butterfly Vengeance By Chris Grinter, on August 24th, 2011% A month ago or so the California Academy of Sciences launched a full fledged expedition to the Philippines. While the majority of the cash was spent on a clipper ship and dive teams, there was a terrestrial component. While I didn’t get to go (and sat at home and pouted), I did talk some of . → Read More: Insects of the Philippines I By Chris Grinter, on August 19th, 2011% This GOP is less of a challenge and more of a simple roundup of miserable stock photography. Alex Wild and others have long ago pointed out the massive failings of many stock photo sites – but here is a brief and painful lep roundup using Google. Step 1: Image search “moth on flower”. Step 2: . → Read More: Genius of the Press XX
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Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 27 Márta, 2014% Rudaí a bhí ciúin anseo ar feadh tréimhse fada – den chuid is mó mar tá mé ag inundated le hobair (i gcónaí gur rud maith é). Ach tá mé freisin isteach le déanaí ar an bpáirtí ocht mbliana go déanach go dtí an traein Twitter. For daily images of cool insects please follow me over there @skepticalmoth. Of course some stories require . . . → Read More: Lean mé ar Twitter Ag Chris Grinter, ar 3 Feabhra, 2014% Mar a bhí mé ag photographing agus databsing an Cicindelinae ó bhailiúcháin an Mhúsaeim Denver an Nádúir & Eolaíocht tháinig mé trasna seo eiseamal a bailíodh ar an 10 Meitheamh 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: Ciaróg ó am spéisiúil Ag Chris Grinter, 21 Deireadh Fómhair, 2013% This beautiful animal is a moth I reared from Quercus palmeri down in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. Tá sé i Gracillariidae teaghlaigh agus is dócha sa Acrocercops ghéineas – de réir Dave Wagner d'fhéadfadh sé ionadaíocht a dhéanamh ar speiceas nua, ach ní go rud neamhchoitianta le leamhain beag. Bhí sé cothrom flúirseach, mar sin . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan Ag Chris Grinter, an 25 Meán Fómhair, 2013% An bhfuil tú ag féachaint ar na grianghraif álainn a ghlac Sam Droege don Fardal USGS Bee agus Lab Monatóireacht? Ar smaoinigh tú riamh conas a fuair sé na shots álainn? Amárach, 26 Meán Fómhair ag 13:00 am thoir, Sam will be doing a LIVE tutorial on YouTube on how to take these photos and how to do it on . . . → Read More: Eiseamail Íomháú Léiriú – Beo! Ag Chris Grinter, ar 22 Iúil, 2013% Tá mé ar bís le bheith rannpháirteach i mbliana mar theagascóir don Chúrsa Lepidoptera ag an Stáisiún Taighde Southwestern aice Tairseach, Arizona. Feicfidh mé a bheith ar cheann de ocht teagascóirí eile a bheidh ar fáil ar lámha ar an agus dian chúrsa 9-lá fada ar an mbailiúchán, caomhnú agus aithint Lepidoptera. Ní féidir liom a shamhlú i ndáiríre ar bhealach níos fearr . . . → Read More: LepCourse 2013 – foghlaim faoi leamhain agus féileacáin! Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 5 Meitheamh, 2013% I came across this short article today claiming that this recent description of the hairstreak butterfly, Ministrymon janevicroy Glassberg 2013, D'fhéadfadh a bheith i ndáiríre ar an “speiceas féileacán seo caite go fírinneach sainiúil d'fhág a fuair sé amach sna Stáit Aontaithe…. [agus] an ré na U.S nua. speiceas féileacán Tá dar críoch”. I find that statement a little bit . . . → Read More: An Féileacán seo caite Cur síos orthu sna Stáit Aontaithe? Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 13ú Bealtaine, 2013% An azure Hop (Celastrina Humulus) Tá gorm dhíspeagtha agus neamhchoitianta le fáil ar an raon tosaigh na Rockies anseo i Colorado. Is í an gléasra óstach an hop fiáin: Humulus lupulus, Tá cineálacha de atá ar ndóigh chomhábhar ríthábhachtach i beoir! In aghaidh na seachtaine nó dhó Beidh mé amach i réimse ag iarraidh a . . . → Read More: Taighdeoir Féileacán An-Hoppy Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 6ú Bealtaine, 2013% Is é an t-am ag teacht go tapa ar an blianta Seachtain Náisiúnta na Leamhan, Iúil 20-28 2013! Ba é an chéad uair riamh Seachtain Leamhan bhliain seo caite d'éirigh thar barr le níos mó ná 300 imeachtaí ó 49 Stáit na Stát Aontaithe agus 30 tíortha! Cabhair a dhéanamh ar na bliana seo fiú níos mó – má tá suim agat i leamhain tú ag gach ba chóir duit a fháil ar áitiúil . . . → Read More: Seachtain Náisiúnta Leamhan 2013! Ag Chris Grinter, ar 18 Márta, 2013% Chun Leamhan seo an Luan shíl mé gur mhaith liom post teagaisc gearr ar an gcaoi a chinneadh go cruinn an gnéas na leamhain. Cé go bhfuil go leor samplaí de speicis gnéasach dimorphic (i gcás ina bhfuil fireannaigh agus baineannaigh ndóigh difriúil), Nach bhfuil an chuid is mó de na leamhain. Saturniidae a dhéanamh ar ár saol éasca ag a bhfuil aeróga strikingly éagsúla idir . . . → Read More: Conas a Gnéas le Leamhan Ag Chris Grinter, 25 Feabhra, 2013% Today’s moth is a beautiful species from the Rocky Mountains outside of Denver, Epermenia stolidota (Epermeniidae). This is actually a larger specimen than it appears, about 20mm from wingtip to wingtip. Those raised, darkened, tufts of scales on the posterior edge of the forewing is a great character for this . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan