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By Chris Grinter, on July 5th, 2011% It seems like there is a preponderance of urban legends that involve insects crawling into our faces while we sleep. The most famous myth is something along the lines of “you eat 8 spiders a year while sleeping“. Actually when you google that the number ranges from 4 to 8… up to . → Read More: All New, Attack Moths! By Chris Grinter, on May 9th, 2011% OK, not an insect… For the next three weeks my colleagues from the Arachnology lab at the California Academy of Sciences are in the Philippines! (no, not jealous at all…) The trip is part of the CAS Hearst expedition, a massive effort spanning all of our research departments to survey the . → Read More: The Arachnologists have landed By Chris Grinter, on April 18th, 2011% A few weeks ago I was invited to join a Berkeley entomology class out in the field for the weekend. Our destination was the Blue Oak Ranch Reserve; one of the newest reserves to the University of California system located just outside of San Jose on Mount Hamilton (map below). It was a . → Read More: Blue Oak Ranch Reserve By Chris Grinter, on March 30th, 2011% Lasia klettii: Photos by April Nobile, CAS For the most part flies are not an insect I get overly excited about. However, the enigmatic family Acroceridae are the exception. I’ll start sharing some interesting genera from time to time – the morphology of the family is amazingly diverse. Most of my days . → Read More: Flies can be (really) cool By Chris Grinter, on March 3rd, 2011% Apparently something in the Mazda 6 fuel line is warm and inviting for the yellow sac spider, enough so that they are building webs over the vent systems of the 4 cylinder vehicles (and not the 6!). The problem has been deemed a “spider infestation” by the car company, and . → Read More: Nature bites back By Chris Grinter, on November 1st, 2010% Might be a day late, but still worth a try. Boo! Aphonopelma species from Western Texas. By Chris Grinter, on September 14th, 2010% A weekend without moths can lead a lepidopterist to do crazy things. Crazy enough to photograph a spider. Over the weekend I was accompanied to the eastern Sierra by fellow insect blogger, coworker and arachnologist, Tamas Szuts. I was on the quest for more specimens of a new Hepialidae of which you may be familiar . → Read More: A Sierran Spider By Chris Grinter, on May 25th, 2010% For those Californians reading, especially those in the south, keep an eye out for this beautiful little spider, Latrodectus geometricus – the brown widow. Arachnologists at UC Riverside are monitoring the spread of this invasive species. Ironically it turns out to not be as dangerous as our native black widow. Nonetheless, it is not . → Read More: Have you seen me?
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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 ...