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By Chris Grinter, on June 5th, 2013% I came across this short article today claiming that this recent description of the hairstreak butterfly, Ministrymon janevicroy Glassberg 2013, may in fact be the “last truly distinctive butterfly species left to be discovered in the United States…. [and] the era of new U.S. butterfly species is ending”. I find that statement a little bit . → Read More: The Last Butterfly Described in the US? Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on May 13th, 2013% The Hop Azure (Celastrina humulus) is a diminutive and uncommon blue found on the front range of the Rockies here in Colorado. Its host plant is the wild hop: Humulus lupulus, varieties of which are of course a critical ingredient in beer! In a week or two I’ll be out in the field looking to . → Read More: A Very Hoppy Butterfly Researcher Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on February 14th, 2013% Like this:Like Loading… 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 April 26th, 2012% The local news for most of the eastern US and Canada has been aflutter (ha) recently with reports of the irruption of Vanessa atalanta – the Red Admiral butterfly. While this is a common occurrence every spring for these butterflies to migrate north from their overwintering grounds in the southern US, . → Read More: The Invasion of the Butterflies Like this: Like Loading... By 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, but . → Read More: A Copper Butterfly in Disguise Like this: Like Loading... By 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 Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on September 4th, 2011% Plebejus samuelis We all saw this day coming, the rise of the butterflies, the day they will take vengeance on us. No longer will they passively fly around their habitats as they are bulldozed for malls and polluted with runoff. One particularly angry Karner Blue has submitted a letter to the . → Read More: Butterfly Vengeance Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on August 24th, 2011% A month ago or so the California Academy of Sciences launched a full fledged expedition to the Philippines. While the majority of the cash was spent on a clipper ship and dive teams, there was a terrestrial component. While I didn’t get to go (and sat at home and pouted), I did talk some of . → Read More: Insects of the Philippines I Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on August 19th, 2011% This GOP is less of a challenge and more of a simple roundup of miserable stock photography. Alex Wild and others have long ago pointed out the massive failings of many stock photo sites – but here is a brief and painful lep roundup using Google. Step 1: Image search “moth on flower”. Step 2: . → Read More: Genius of the Press XX Like this: Like Loading...
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Ag 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: Lean mé ar Twitter Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 14 Márta, 2013% Is breá liom ag tochailt tríd an poll abyssal ar an idirlíon mire mar a rachaidh mé chun GEMS mar seo a aimsiú: An Mothman ar Mars? Nasctha sa 'earra’ Is grianghraf Rover NASA Fiosracht, Mastcam Ceart. Grianghraf tógtha ar 21 Feabhra 2013. An charraig siad ag caint faoi mar a “mothman” i thaobh na láimhe clé uachtair . . . → Read More: An Mothman cuairt ar Mhars Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, an 16 Nollaig, 2012% Cúpla mí ó shin go leor de tú shiúil dócha ar fud an meme – an cáiliúil Poodle Leamhan! Agus go deimhin don chuid is mó a bhí an tuairisciú leath réasúnta. Is ea, tá sé fíor-. Is ea, tá sé ina moth. Is ea, is dócha go bhfuil speiceas sa Lasiocampidae (b'fhéidir, an Artace ghéineas) mar a dúirt i gceart ag an Dr. John Rawlins. . . . → Read More: An Leamhan Poodle agus an Fadhb na Cryptozoology Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 24 Samhain, 2012% Fág go Denver a chur le chéile dhá rud idéalach chun an bhlag seo – feithideolaíocht amhras! Más rud é nach bhfuil tú ag feiceáil ar na clips a chur ansin an dara chun féachaint ar na físeáin thuas. Ar a laghad is cosúil seo a bheith ina feiniméan fíor, foirne ceamara ón stáisiún nuacht bhí siad in ann . . . → Read More: Deaglán saithí Thar Denver 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, ar an 16ú Samhain, 2011% Mé díreach tar éis ar ais ó Chumann entomological Mheiriceá comhdháil bhliantúil i Reno, Nevada! Tá sé an gcruinniú is mó dá leithéid ar domhan, le níos mó ná 4,000 lucht freastail ó gach tráth den saol taighde feithidí. Tá mo leasanna i Systematics, cainteanna éabhlóid agus bithéagsúlacht – agus beidh mé iarracht a recap roinnt de na . . . → Read More: Bugs i Reno: ESA 2011 Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 9 Samhain, 2011% Ba chóir dúinn a cheiliúradh ar fad an lá seo le gníomh na heolaíochta nó amhras. Plandaí an síol fiosrúcháin agus smaointeoireacht chriticiúil, nó a chur i láthair a leathnú do dhearcadh féin. Bhí mé suas roimh breacadh an lae ar maidin agus faire na réaltaí maidin céimnithe taobh thiar de na solas na gréine ag ardú. Thug sé chun cuimhne mo . . . → Read More: Breithlá shona, Carl Sagan. Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 17 Deireadh Fómhair, 2011% CNN Tá léim anois ar an bandwagon de bashing FOX-esque maoinithe eolaíochta. Tuairisceoir Erin Burnett “Tuarascálacha” ar mhaoiniú cónaidhme de $5.7 milliún dollar chun cabhrú le troid leis an ionrach Donn Marmorated stink Bug (Halys Halyomorpha). Tá searbhas Burnett ar beagnach tiubh go leor chun a bhriseadh i leibhéil SNL na ridiculousness, ach is cosúil sí fíor ina . . . → Read More: Stink Bug stink Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 30 Meán Fómhair, 2011% Today marks a sad day in Physics history, the Tevatron accelerator at Fermi Lab in Batavia Illinois was powered down for the last time. Once the second most powerful accelerator in the world (and most powerful in the USA), the new LHC has made this beautiful machine obsolete. I can only assume the teams of . . . → Read More: The end of an era Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, on September 13th, 2011% This is a pretty epic fail. I guess the “young adult” publishing guidelines are less strict with “facts”. Thanks to Richard Lee Brown for first posting this on Facebook. Cosúil le seo:Cosúil le Loading… Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ...