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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! Like this: Like Loading... 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 Like this: Like Loading... 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 Like this: Like Loading... 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 Like this: Like Loading... 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 Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on November 1st, 2010% Might be a day late, but still worth a try. Boo! Aphonopelma species from Western Texas. Like this:Like Loading… Like this: Like Loading... 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 Like this: Like Loading... 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? Like this: Like Loading...
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Ag Chris Grinter, 21 Deireadh Fómhair, 2010% Tosaíonn will céim 1 obair allamuigh / tiomána dÚsachtach agus laethanta saoire am. Beidh mé a bheith dírithe ar bhailiú don chéim seo den turas, bualadh theas Texas díreach in am don deireadh eireaball na leamhain titim ag eitilt sa Schinia ghéineas. Ach tá microleps mo spéis bunscoile, agus tá mé cinnte go mbainfidh mé ag teacht ar ais leis na céadta . . . → Read More: Ar ais i Réimse Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, 19 Deireadh Fómhair, 2010% Na seachtaine seo (amhail is dá mba mé a choinneáil ar bun leis an seachtainiúil) Cuireadh GOP a seoladh chugam ag commenter “Subverted“. Go raibh maith agat as an méid a chuireann! Déan nós a lán iomlán níos éasca, agus mé a spreagadh go láidir aighneachtaí sa todhchaí ó léitheoirí eile. Dóibh siúd nua chun mo bhlag – Is é an Genius an tsraith Preas comórtas a . . . → Read More: Genius de XIII Preas Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, 19 Deireadh Fómhair, 2010% An chathair Tá mé ag obair i a tharlaíonn a bheith ar cheann de na cathracha is mó sa domhan – mar sin in iúl dom rub sé i go hachomair. Seo físeán néal a chur ar an San Francisco Bay a gabhadh ag ealaíontóir áitiúil. Bí cinnte chun féachaint i HD, tá sé néal a chur ar. An Mhuir Unseen ó Simon Christen ar . . . → Read More: Ceann sna Scamaill Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 18 Deireadh Fómhair, 2010% Tháinig mé trasna ar an ngléas seo spéisiúil agus bhí imoibriú gut an toirt.. “Ar ndóigh, nach bhfuil bolgán uisce dúr cuileoga repel, Is é seo a scam!”… anáil domhain… OK is é sin amhras uafásach. I ndáiríre, tá sé ciniciúil agus tá sé ach cad a fuath skeptics bheith ar a dtugtar. Tá sé freisin rud a tharlaíonn i bhfad ró-éasca – . . . → Read More: Cuir glaoch orm skeptical… Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, 12 Deireadh Fómhair, 2010% Ar mo taisteal go laethúil ar ais go dtí Berkeley, Tá mé chonaic seo (leithscéal a ghabháil le haghaidh an íomhá cruddy). I ndáiríre, Mé le feiceáil dornán de na pop suas ar fud San Francisco agus déanann sé dom iarraidh a cuimilt mo chuid gruaige amach gach uair. Dóibh siúd atá nua chun mo bhlag, Téann sé seo ar ais go dtí mo Genius de . . . → Read More: Ní bheidh ach saoire dom féin Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 5 Deireadh Fómhair, 2010% Wow tá sé curtha ar feadh cúpla seachtain ó shin mo last post, agus mé beagán náire tar éis ligean dó dul chomh fada. Cad a bhí mé suas go dtí? Ní nach iomláine. Uimh turais a bhailiú go hiontach, aon speiceas nua nó fionnachtana. I ndáiríre tá mé ag suí ag an micreascóp dissecting baill ghiniúna nó databasing cuileoga seadánacha. Feicfidh mé a bheith . . . → Read More: Am Tá eitlíodh iontu Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ...