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By Chris Grinter, on June 15th, 2011% Map/% updated June 20, 6pm. Updates to the maps and containment percentages have been made to my earlier post. Here is a map of the 4th fire burning in SE Arizona, the Monument fire. This one is only 10% 17% 15% 27% contained and is burning in the southern end of the Huachuca Mountains . → Read More: Arizona followup Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on May 30th, 2011% Whoops, it’s almost Tuesday! Above is Schinia ligeae (Noctuidae) resting on its host plant Xylorhiza tortifolia, the Mojave Aster. I photographed this about three weeks ago outside the town of Big Pine, California. The asters were thick in the valleys below the snow capped Sierra, and the moths were abundant. → Read More: Monday Moth Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on May 9th, 2011% OK, not an insect… For the next three weeks my colleagues from the Arachnology lab at the California Academy of Sciences are in the Philippines! (no, not jealous at all…) The trip is part of the CAS Hearst expedition, a massive effort spanning all of our research departments to survey the . → Read More: The Arachnologists have landed Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on April 24th, 2011% Everyone is familiar with the famous death’s head hawkmoth, but I think it’s a shame we have popularized such a grim character. Above is a much more cheery Neotropical Arctiinae from French Guiana that looks like it’s sporting a clown face. Sadly this isn’t my photograph, but . → Read More: Sunday Moth Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on March 8th, 2011% [cetsEmbedGmap src=http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.393039,-118.416824&spn=0.359452,0.715485&t=h&z=11 width=600 height=330 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=auto] Tomorrow morning I’m off for a 10 day collecting trip down to Catalina Island. I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to join Dr. Jerry Powell of UC Berkeley on a moth survey, and this will be my first time to any of the islands. → Read More: The Moth is off to Catalina Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on November 18th, 2010% While I gear up for more posts of substance, enjoy this brief video from the California Academy of Sciences butterfly collection. Dr. Norm Penny does a wonderful job of sharing some of our gems, it’s just too bad the video isn’t any longer (or about moths!). Like this:Like . → Read More: Cal Academy Butterflies Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on October 21st, 2010% Tomorrow begins stage 1 of field work/crazy driving and vacation time. I will be focused on collecting for this stage of the trip, hitting southern Texas just in time for the tail end of fall flying moths in the genus Schinia. But microleps are my primary interest, and I’m sure I’ll come back with hundreds . → Read More: Back in the Field Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on October 5th, 2010% Wow it’s been a few weeks since my last post, and I’m a bit embarrassed having let it go so long. What have I been up to? Not a whole not. No impressive collecting trips, no new species or discoveries. Actually I’ve been sitting at a microscope dissecting genitalia or databasing parasitic flies. I’ll have . → Read More: Time has flown Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on September 14th, 2010% A weekend without moths can lead a lepidopterist to do crazy things. Crazy enough to photograph a spider. Over the weekend I was accompanied to the eastern Sierra by fellow insect blogger, coworker and arachnologist, Tamas Szuts. I was on the quest for more specimens of a new Hepialidae of which you may be familiar . → Read More: A Sierran Spider Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on August 10th, 2010% Pictured is a black-veined white (Aporia crataegi ssp), and it is currently being returned to the Korean Institute of Biological Resources. Loans get returned, as they should be, every day – and can even number in the thousands of specimens. I myself have a few hundred moths out on loan from a handful of . → Read More: A Disturbing New Trend? Like this: Like Loading...
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Ag Chris Grinter, 16 Aibreán, 2012% Today’s moth is an understated brown Crambidae, Loxostege brunneitincta. While this isn’t a particularly captivating moth it does have an interesting story that illustrates the need for scientific collections and museum loans. If you read the label image you will notice the moth was originally collected in 1927 by E. Van . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 12ú Márta, 2012% Mar tá mé cinnte go atá tú faoi deara rudaí a bheith millteanach ciúin thart anseo don dá mhí anuas. An chuid is mó d'Eanáir bhí mé gnóthach le bogadh, ó San Francisco go Chicago. Unfortunately the foundation that was supporting my work at the California Academy of Sciences had some tough financial calls to make and my position . . . → Read More: Ar ais go Blagadóireacht! Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, 19 Meán Fómhair, 2011% Trosia nigrorufa (Megalopygidae) Is é seo an dé luain moth baineann néal a chur ar an Megalopygidae Neotropical – Trosia nigrorufa. Ed Ross agus Ev Schlinger bailíodh sin eiseamal i Peiriú i 1955, agus Chuala mé a lán scéalta faoi na expeditions epic. Ní féidir liom a shamhlú i ndáiríre ag taisteal tríd long lasta, á imithe ar feadh sé mhí nó níos mó . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 12 Meán Fómhair, 2011% Oops, Ndearna mé Dé Luain seo caite moth, agus mar sin tá anseo dhá! Is iad seo roinnt stunners ón expedition CAS hOileáin Fhilipíneacha agus Sílim go bhfuil mé figured amach a n-ainmneacha. Má tá a fhios agat níos fearr, le do thoil cheartú dom. Leabhrán Darma (Limacodidae) Parotid marginata (Crambidae) Cosúil le seo:Cosúil . . . → 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, 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 18 Iúil, 2011% Feicfidh mé a choinneáil ar an liathróid rollta le Arctiinae agus iar grianghraf lá atá inniu ann de Ctenucha brunnea. Is féidir an moth a coitianta i féara ard ar feadh tránna ó San Francisco go LA – cé le blianta beaga anuas ar líon na an moth ag laghdú le scrios ar ghnáthóga agus an ionradh ar féar trá (Ammophila arenaria). Ach . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, an 20 Meitheamh, 2011% Tá mé ag dul a choinneáil ar an liathróid rollta leis an tsraith seo agus iarracht a dhéanamh níos rialta. Beidh mé ag díriú freisin ar aird a tharraingt ar speiceas nua gach seachtain ó na bailiúcháin ollmhór anseo ag an Acadamh Eolaíochtaí na California. Ba chóir é sin a thabhairt dom go leor ábhar le haghaidh… ar a laghad cúpla céad bliain. Grammia edwardsii . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, on May 9th, 2011% OK, not an insect… For the next three weeks my colleagues from the Arachnology lab at the California Academy of Sciences are in the Philippines! (aon, not jealous at all…) The trip is part of the CAS Hearst expedition, a massive effort spanning all of our research departments to survey the . . . → Read More: The Arachnologists have landed Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ...