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By Chris Grinter, on September 30th, 2011% The 2011 Ig Nobel ceremony took place yesterday at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The award is sponsored by Improbable Research, an organization that gathers fascinating, odd, and outright hilarious research papers that triumph the idea that not all science is boring. Among this year’s distinguished recipients was fellow entomologist and blogger David Rentz, who received the . → Read More: Sexy, Sexy Beer Bottles Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on September 19th, 2011% The microscopic insect world is a very different one from ours and we rarely are given glimpses into it. Thanks in part to the impressive Phantom camera system and the Flight Artists project researchers have filmed the minute (1mm!) Trichogramma wasp (Chalcidoidea) in flight. These insects are egg parasites of . → Read More: The Soaring Microcosmos Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on August 8th, 2011% This week’s moth is a video of a dancing micro from the Philippines (taken by Warren Laurde). As you might suspect this is a mating display that ends in a pretty spectacular headstand. There are lots of other microleps that have dancing or display behavior, but there are almost no other videos online . → Read More: Monday Moth Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on June 11th, 2010% This moth is just about as rare as its paranormal namesake (except that it’s real) – it’s a Gazoryctra sp. in the family Hepialidae. They represent a basal lineage of the Lepidoptera and are commonly known as ghost moths or swift moths. Ghost – because males of some species are known to fly in . → Read More: Biology of a Ghost Like this: Like Loading...
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Ag Chris Grinter, 31 Lúnasa, 2011% Tá plé leanúnach thar na blianta anuas roinnt de cén fáth fanacht chomh beag ban san eolaíocht. Cé nach bhfuil mé ag dul a Léim isteach an ábhar anseo, Is féidir leat teacht ar plé mór anseo, anseo, anseo agus anseo. Ní dóigh liom go, áfach, Áitíonn aon duine faoi cén fáth nach bhfuil mná dul isteach eolaíocht sa chéad áit, . . . → Read More: Mná san Eolaíocht Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 29 Lúnasa, 2011% Villosa Schinia Is é seo an moth Luan go duo de Schinia villosa (Noctuidae) Tá resting ar cad tá mé ag glacadh leis a n-plandaí óstach (Sp Erigeron.). Thiomsóidh mé an lámhaigh thart 9,000 chosa in airde ar an Plateau KAIBAB i dTuaisceart Arizona an mhí seo caite. Ní mór tine dóite an limistéar cúpla bliain ó shin mar gheall ar . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 24 Lúnasa, 2011% A month ago or so the California Academy of Sciences launched a full fledged expedition to the Philippines. Cé gur caitheadh an chuid is mó de an t-airgead ar long Clipper agus foirne Léim, bhí comhpháirt trastíre. Cé nach raibh mé a fháil chun dul (agus shuigh sa bhaile agus pouted), I did talk some of . . . → Read More: Feithidí na hOileáin Fhilipíneacha I Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 22 Lúnasa, 2011% An tseachtain seo caite Jim Hayden guessed go raibh an moth sa phost mé Oecophoridae hAstráile. Bhí sé ina buille faoi thuairim maith toisc go bhfuil an oiread leamhain mór agus néal sa teaghlach ón Astráil. Ceann de na fearr go bhfuil a bheith ar an gceann seo, Wingia lambertella (Oecophoridae), gabhadh ar Sliabh Dubh i Canberra Deireadh Fómhair 23, 1955 (Bailiúcháin CAS). . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 19 Lúnasa, 2011% Is é seo an GOP níos lú de dúshlán agus níos mó de roundup simplí de grianghrafadóireacht stoc olc. Alex Fiáin agus daoine eile a bheith fada ó shin le fios na teipeanna ollmhór go leor suímh grianghraf stoc – ach is anseo a roundup LEP gearr agus painful ag baint úsáide as Google. Céim 1: Cuardach Íomhá “moth ar bláth”. Céim 2: . . . → Read More: Genius an XX Phreasa Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, 15 Lúnasa, 2011% FREAGRA: Ní raibh sé sin éasca – ach tá sé seo moth mór agus álainn a bhí as an Astráil agus tá sé i Xyloryctidae teaghlach (Philarista sp.). We have a handful of representatives of this group here in the US and Ted MacRae over on Beetles in the Bush has a few great photographs of them. Somehow I think we . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 14ú Lúnasa, 2011% Tá na ciaróga Lycidae mór agus suimiúil (Lycus fernandezi) bhí flúirseach i thoir theas Arizona cúpla seachtain ó shin. De shíor ag eitilt idir bláthanna agus gaineamh tais bhí siad a dhéanamh do spriocanna grianghrafadóireacht éasca. Shíl mé go féin “anseo tá deis iontach a ghabháil ciaróg ag éirí den talamh!”. Fan le haghaidh dó… Lycus fernandezi (Lycidae) . . . → Read More: Ciaróg Glan-Winged Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 11ú Lúnasa, 2011% Seo físeán eile iontach ó Warren! Tá mé ag guessing tá sé seo le Choreutidae mar gheall ar an mbealach na sciatháin ar siúl le linn damhsa – cé go bhfuil sé ró-thapa a fháil i ndáiríre le breathnú soiléir. Ós rud é go bhfuil sé ó fauna Tá mé go hiomlán cur amach acu raibh mé in ann a bheith go héasca mícheart – so please correct me . . . → Read More: Leamhan Damhsa Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 10 Lúnasa, 2011% Fresh as an presses, an Gorm Miami Féileacán (MBB) liostaithe anois mar i mbaol federally trí ghníomh ar fhoráil éigeandála. Huzzah! (ceart?) Miami Féileacán Blue ó Féileacáin Mheiriceá Bhí mo chéad smaoineamh “fan, Ní raibh sé seo i mbaol cheana?”. Is ea, casadh amach an MBB Tá stát-i mbaol ó 2002 tar éis achainí éigeandála roimhe . . . → Read More: NABA Géara Éisc agus Fiadhúlra i Zombies brainless Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, on August 8th, 2011% This week’s moth is a video of a dancing micro from the Philippines (taken by Warren Laurde). As you might suspect this is a mating display that ends in a pretty spectacular headstand. There are lots of other microleps that have dancing or display behavior, but there are almost no other videos online . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ...