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By Chris Grinter, on February 14th, 2013% Like this:Like Loading… Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on February 11th, 2013% This week I’m sharing a tiny, scruffy, and semi-competently spread Nepticulidae in the genus Stigmella from the same light trap of Prescott Arizona as the past few Monday Moths. I usually wouldn’t share a photo of a moth that isn’t in the best condition, but I’m using this as an example of . → Read More: Monday Moth Like this: Like Loading... 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 Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on February 4th, 2013% How about another unidentified Gelechiidae from the same location as the previous specimen (nr. Prescott Arizona). I’m taking a stab at this moth being in the genus Chionodes – and it is superficially similar to the species C. continuella. Thankfully there is a monograph of this group (Moths of America North of Mexico, fascicle 7.6) . → Read More: Monday Moth Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on January 7th, 2013% This moth is a good example of what a lot of my moths are at the moment – unidentified! This is certainly a Gelechiidae, you can see the large upturned palps on the front of the head, and a finger-shaped projection on the tips of the hindwings. Just about one of the easiest . → Read More: Monday Moth Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on December 16th, 2012% A few months ago many of you probably stumbled across this meme – the famous Poodle Moth! And indeed for the most part the reporting was half decent. Yes, it’s real. Yes, it’s a moth. Yes, it’s probably a species in the Lasiocampidae (possibly the genus Artace) as correctly pointed out by Dr. John Rawlins. → Read More: The Poodle Moth and the Problem of Cryptozoology Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on December 10th, 2012% Welcome to the new home of the Skeptical Moth! I know updating blogrolls isn’t all that fun, but thank you for sticking with me. And since it’s Monday – here is an Automeris io (Saturniidae) from southern Illinois, May 2012. Cheers and Happy New Year! Like this:Like . → Read More: Welcome To The New Location! Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on December 3rd, 2012% Today’s moth is a stunning micro and another creature from Barb Bartell’s back yard in the Rockies. To the best of my knowledge it’s a species of Mompha (Coleophoridae), probably claudiella,but I don’t have a positive ID on this bug yet. Once I start digging through the micros from this site there are sure to . → Read More: Monday Moth Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on November 26th, 2012% To reignite the Monday Moth series here is a stunner: Melemaea magdalena (Geometridae). This rare beauty has previously only been known from scattered localities across the mountain west and only from a few individuals every other season. That is until Denver Museum volunteer Barbara Bartell began inventorying moths on her property near Golden . → Read More: Monday Moth Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on November 24th, 2012% Leave it to Denver to combine two things perfect for this blog – entomology and skepticism! If you haven’t seen these clips then take a second to watch the video above. At the very least this appears to be a real phenomenon, camera crews from the news station were able . → Read More: UFO Swarms Over Denver Like this: Like Loading...
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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? Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... 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 Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, on February 14th, 2013% Cosúil le seo:Cosúil le Loading… Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, an 7 Feabhra, 2013% Tá an scéal go leor féileacáin San Francisco go maith ar a dtugtar agus depressing. Tá tionchar an ceantar mór ag forbairt an duine ar feadh níos mó ná dhá chéad bliain agus is é an baile infamous leis an chéad sampla ar a dtugtar de féileacán Meiriceánach extinct, an gorm Xerces. Cé go bhfuil féileacáin eile crochta ar, nó ag fáil cabhair a hang ar . . . → Read More: Nuair Déan Tacsanomaíochta ina Speicis Lúide Go criticiúil i mBaol Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 26ú Aibreán, 2012% Tá an nuacht áitiúil don chuid is mó de na Stáit Aontaithe thoir agus Ceanada curtha aflutter (Tá) le déanaí le tuarascálacha na irruption de Vanessa Atalanta – an féileacán Red Aimiréil. Cé go bhfuil sé seo le tarlú coiteann gach earrach do na féileacáin ag dul ar imirce ó thuaidh óna forais overwintering sna Stáit Aontaithe ó dheas, . . . → Read More: An ionradh ar an Féileacáin Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag 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, ach . . . → Read More: A Copper Butterfly in Disguise Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag 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 Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, an 4 Meán Fómhair, 2011% Plebejus Samuels Chonaic muid ar fad an lá seo ag teacht, an t-ardú de na féileacáin, an lá a bheidh siad bhfeice ar orainn. Beidh a thuilleadh siad ag eitilt éighníomhach thart ar a ngnáthóga de réir mar a bulldozed do malls agus truaillithe le rith chun srutha. Amháin go háirithe feargach Karner Gorm Tá litir faoi bhráid na . . . → Read More: Bhfeice Féileacán 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 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 ...