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By Chris Grinter, on March 30th, 2011% Lasia klettii: Photos by April Nobile, CAS For the most part flies are not an insect I get overly excited about. However, the enigmatic family Acroceridae are the exception. I’ll start sharing some interesting genera from time to time – the morphology of the family is amazingly diverse. Most of my days . → Read More: Flies can be (really) cool Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on March 24th, 2011% Better be careful of what you do while out in the countryside. Farms can be dangerous places, especially if you’re a photographer. Proposed legislation in Florida, titled simply “farms”, is attempting to make photography or drawings in, on or of a farm without explicit written consent a first degree FELONY (up to 30 years in . → Read More: 1984 Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on March 22nd, 2011% Usually I come across horrible entomology articles regularly enough that I save a backlog for future series. This hasn’t been the case over the last few weeks, I haven’t come across the normal array of terrible media crud. Maybe I just get jaded and stop looking as carefully – but this week I even came . → Read More: Genius of the Press XVII Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on March 18th, 2011% Perhaps the only place in the world where you can find an American bison (vs. buffalo) standing near a beach next to a palm tree. The week on Santa Catalina was an wonderful one, and despite a cool spring with a few unseasonable frosts, some decent collecting was done. Here are just . → Read More: The Bison of Catalina 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 March 3rd, 2011% Apparently something in the Mazda 6 fuel line is warm and inviting for the yellow sac spider, enough so that they are building webs over the vent systems of the 4 cylinder vehicles (and not the 6!). The problem has been deemed a “spider infestation” by the car company, and . → Read More: Nature bites back Like this: Like Loading... By Chris Grinter, on March 1st, 2011% The family Nepticulidae hold some of the smallest moths known, ranging from 3-8mm wing-tip to wing-tip. For a comparison I have imaged two moths above: the largest known – Coscinocera hercules that tips the scales at nearly 9 inches, and one of the smallest (yes that tiny little speck . → Read More: The tiniest of moths Like this: Like Loading...
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Ag Chris Grinter, on March 31st, 2012% On a brisk 37 degree morning in Northern Illinois I decided to dust off my camera and explore the progress of “spring”. I hit Rollins Savanna Forest Preserve by 6:30ag an, just in time for first light to melt the patchy frost. A week and a half ago temps were pushing the upper 80’s and summer . . . → Read More: Prairie on a Cold Spring Morning Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 18 Iúil, 2011% Over on Arthropoda, fellow SFS blogger Michael Bok shared an image of his field buddy, Plugg the green tree frog. Bhí mo chéad smaoineamh de frog crann cosúil leis ciaptha fáilte roimh a dom i ngach áit chuaigh mé i Santa Rosa Páirc Náisiúnta, Costa Rica. Gá é a rá, Costa Rica instills an nós tobann seiceáil dúbailte . . . → Read More: Frog Surprise Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, on June 7th, 2011% I’ve known for a while that beetles and other inverts occasionally have vertebrates on their menu, but I didn’t really know how large of an animal they could subdue! Even when the odd mantis grabs a hummingbird the size difference is not as substantial as is shown below. This impressive video was . . . → Read More: Take that, vertebrates! Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 19 Aibreán, 2011% Foinse: Wikipedia Casadh sé amach go bhfuil Richard Branson smaoineamh nua; a shábháil ar an lemur fáinne-tailed (Lemur catta) trí iad a iompórtáil a príobháideach Bhriotanacha na Maighdean Oileáin. Mar pointí an t-alt amach chaith Branson milliúin punt agus bliana d'iarracht dul ar an oileán i “an cairdiúil is éiceolaíochta . . . → Read More: Is Richard Branson ina leathcheann Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar 18 Márta, 2011% B'fhéidir gurb é an áit ach amháin sa domhan nuair is féidir leat teacht ar bíosún Meiriceánach (vs. bíosún) seasamh in aice le trá in aice le crann pailme. Bhí an seachtain ar Santa Catalina amháin iontach, agus in ainneoin an earraigh fionnuar le cúpla frosts neamhshaosúrach, Cuireadh roinnt mhaith bhailiú dhéanamh. Seo iad ach . . . → Read More: An Bison na Catalina Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 25 Bealtaine, 2010% Dóibh siúd Californians léamh, go háirithe iad siúd sa deisceart, coinnigh súil amach do seo Spider beag álainn, Latrodectus geometricus – an bhaintreach donn. Arachnologists ag UC Riverside ag déanamh monatóireachta ar an scaipeadh an speicis seo ionrach. Go híorónta casadh sé amach a bheith chomh contúirteach mar ár bhaintreach dúchais dubh. Mar sin féin, nach bhfuil sé . . . → Read More: An bhfaca tú dom? Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 2 Bealtaine, 2010% I gcás na ceithre seachtaine anuas anois tá mé ar chase gé, do moth amháin, Heliolonche celeris. Tá sé Noctuidae beag álainn le forewings pinkish agus hindwings oráiste-dearg néal. Níl sé a bhíonn go minic agus fuair sé ach amháin ar feadh na sliabhraonta thuaidh California bheathú ar Malacothrix floccifera – bláth endemic CA. Gach turas . . . → Read More: An Ealaín de Chase Goose Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ... Ag Chris Grinter, 21ú Aibreán, 2010% A 15 míol mór liath chos nite suas díreach ar an San Francisco Bay. Anois tá ár n-deis do exploding chuid míol mór 2! Cosúil le seo:Cosúil le Loading… Cosúil le seo: Cosúil Ag luchtú ...