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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 By Chris Grinter, on July 22nd, 2013% I’m excited to be participating this year as an instructor for the Lepidoptera Course at the Southwestern Research Station near Portal, Arizona. I’ll be one of eight other instructors who will provide a hands on and intense 9-day long course on the collection, preservation and identification of Lepidoptera. I really can’t imagine a better way . → Read More: LepCourse 2013 – learn about moths and butterflies! 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? By Chris Grinter, on December 1st, 2011% The first annual National Moth Week will be this summer, July 23-29, 2012! This is the first event of its kind in the US (it has been popular in the UK for quite some time) and is an attempt to encourage people to head outside and explore their often overlooked moth fauna. The US has . → Read More: National Moth Week 2012 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 By Chris Grinter, on November 3rd, 2011% That’s how the saying goes, right? Two weeks ago I participated in the 5th annual National Geographic BioBlitz over in Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona. It was a great excuse to get back into the field and it was the first time I collected Arizona in the fall. Temps were still pushing the mid . → Read More: Busy as a Moth By Chris Grinter, on October 3rd, 2011% Gnophaela vermiculata pair This Monday moth is an Arctiinae, Gnophaela vermiculata. These beautiful day flying moths were abundant on yellow Helianthus flowers around 9000′ in the Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico. Caterpillars feed on bluebells, but the adults prefer the highest quality nectar source in the area – which fortunately makes for . → Read More: Monday Moth By Chris Grinter, on September 19th, 2011% Trosia nigrorufa (Megalopygidae) This Monday moth is a stunning female of the Neotropical Megalopygidae – Trosia nigrorufa. Ed Ross and Ev Schlinger collected this specimen in Peru in 1955, and I’ve heard many stories about these epic expeditions. I can’t really imagine travelling via cargo ship, being gone for six or more months . → Read More: Monday Moth 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 By Chris Grinter, on June 20th, 2011% I’m going to keep the ball rolling with this series and try to make it more regular. I will also focus on highlighting a new species each week from the massive collections here at the California Academy of Sciences. This should give me enough material for… at least a few hundred years. Grammia edwardsii . → Read More: Monday Moth
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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 ...