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By Chris Grinter, on March 27th, 2014% Things have been quiet here for quite a while – mostly because I’ve been inundated with work (always a good thing). But I have also recently joined the party eight years late to the Twitter train. For daily images of cool insects please follow me over there @skepticalmoth. Of course some stories require . → Read More: Follow me on Twitter Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on February 3rd, 2014% As I was photographing and databsing the Cicindelinae from the collections of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science I came across this specimen collected on the 10th June 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: A beetle from an interesting time Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on October 21st, 2013% This beautiful animal is a moth I reared from Quercus palmeri down in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. It’s in the family Gracillariidae and most likely in the genus Acrocercops – according to Dave Wagner it may represent a new species, but that’s not an uncommon thing with small moths. It was fairly abundant, so . → Read More: Monday Moth 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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Dé Luain Leamhan Ag Chris Grinter, an 26 Samhain, 2012 Chun reignite an tsraith Dé Luain Leamhan anseo stunner: Melemaea Magdalena (Geometridae). Tá an áilleacht annamh roimhe ar eolas ach ó dúichí scaipthe ar fud an taobh thiar sliabh agus ach ó cúpla daoine aonair gach séasúr eile. Is é sin go dtí go thosaigh deonach Denver Músaem Barbara Bartell leamhain fardal ar a mhaoin in aice Golden Gate Canyon Páirc an Stáit sa réimse tosaigh Rocky Mountain. Níos mó ná 8,000′ na leamhain dul amach a bheith ina cuairteoir rialta ar a blacklight cábáin agus tá muid anois ar an tsraith is mó ar a dtugtar an speicis seo néal (agus go léir breá feighlithe!). Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ...