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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 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 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 September 25th, 2013% Have you seen the beautiful photos taken by Sam Droege for the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab? Ever wondered how he got those beautiful shots? Tomorrow, September 26th at 1pm eastern time, Sam will be doing a LIVE tutorial on YouTube on how to take these photos and how to do it on . → Read More: Specimen Imaging Demonstration – Live! 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 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 By Chris Grinter, on May 6th, 2013% The time is fast approaching for this years National Moth Week, July 20-28 2013! The first ever Moth Week last year was a huge success with over 300 events from 49 US States and 30 countries! Help make this year even bigger – if you’re interested in moths at all you should find a local . → Read More: National Moth Week 2013! By Chris Grinter, on March 18th, 2013% For this Monday’s Moth I thought I’d post a brief tutorial on how to accurately determine the sex of moths. While there are lots of examples of sexually dimorphic species (where males and females are obviously different), the vast majority of moths are not. Saturniidae make our lives easy by having strikingly different antennae between . → Read More: How to Sex a Moth By Chris Grinter, on February 25th, 2013% Today’s moth is a beautiful species from the Rocky Mountains outside of Denver, Epermenia stolidota (Epermeniidae). This is actually a larger specimen than it appears, about 20mm from wingtip to wingtip. Those raised, darkened, tufts of scales on the posterior edge of the forewing is a great character for this . → Read More: Monday Moth
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Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 27 Márta, 2014% Rudaí a bhí ciúin anseo ar feadh tréimhse fada – den chuid is mó mar tá mé ag inundated le hobair (i gcónaí gur rud maith é). Ach tá mé freisin isteach le déanaí ar an bpáirtí ocht mbliana go déanach go dtí an traein Twitter. For daily images of cool insects please follow me over there @skepticalmoth. Of course some stories require . . . → Read More: Lean mé ar Twitter Ag Chris Grinter, ar 3 Feabhra, 2014% Mar a bhí mé ag photographing agus databsing an Cicindelinae ó bhailiúcháin an Mhúsaeim Denver an Nádúir & Eolaíocht tháinig mé trasna seo eiseamal a bailíodh ar an 10 Meitheamh 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: Ciaróg ó am spéisiúil Ag Chris Grinter, 21 Deireadh Fómhair, 2013% This beautiful animal is a moth I reared from Quercus palmeri down in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. Tá sé i Gracillariidae teaghlaigh agus is dócha sa Acrocercops ghéineas – de réir Dave Wagner d'fhéadfadh sé ionadaíocht a dhéanamh ar speiceas nua, ach ní go rud neamhchoitianta le leamhain beag. Bhí sé cothrom flúirseach, mar sin . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan Ag Chris Grinter, an 25 Meán Fómhair, 2013% An bhfuil tú ag féachaint ar na grianghraif álainn a ghlac Sam Droege don Fardal USGS Bee agus Lab Monatóireacht? Ar smaoinigh tú riamh conas a fuair sé na shots álainn? Amárach, 26 Meán Fómhair ag 13:00 am thoir, Sam will be doing a LIVE tutorial on YouTube on how to take these photos and how to do it on . . . → Read More: Eiseamail Íomháú Léiriú – Beo! Ag Chris Grinter, ar 22 Iúil, 2013% Tá mé ar bís le bheith rannpháirteach i mbliana mar theagascóir don Chúrsa Lepidoptera ag an Stáisiún Taighde Southwestern aice Tairseach, Arizona. Feicfidh mé a bheith ar cheann de ocht teagascóirí eile a bheidh ar fáil ar lámha ar an agus dian chúrsa 9-lá fada ar an mbailiúchán, caomhnú agus aithint Lepidoptera. Ní féidir liom a shamhlú i ndáiríre ar bhealach níos fearr . . . → Read More: LepCourse 2013 – foghlaim faoi leamhain agus féileacáin! 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? 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 Ag Chris Grinter, ar an 6ú Bealtaine, 2013% Is é an t-am ag teacht go tapa ar an blianta Seachtain Náisiúnta na Leamhan, Iúil 20-28 2013! Ba é an chéad uair riamh Seachtain Leamhan bhliain seo caite d'éirigh thar barr le níos mó ná 300 imeachtaí ó 49 Stáit na Stát Aontaithe agus 30 tíortha! Cabhair a dhéanamh ar na bliana seo fiú níos mó – má tá suim agat i leamhain tú ag gach ba chóir duit a fháil ar áitiúil . . . → Read More: Seachtain Náisiúnta Leamhan 2013! Ag Chris Grinter, ar 18 Márta, 2013% Chun Leamhan seo an Luan shíl mé gur mhaith liom post teagaisc gearr ar an gcaoi a chinneadh go cruinn an gnéas na leamhain. Cé go bhfuil go leor samplaí de speicis gnéasach dimorphic (i gcás ina bhfuil fireannaigh agus baineannaigh ndóigh difriúil), Nach bhfuil an chuid is mó de na leamhain. Saturniidae a dhéanamh ar ár saol éasca ag a bhfuil aeróga strikingly éagsúla idir . . . → Read More: Conas a Gnéas le Leamhan Ag Chris Grinter, 25 Feabhra, 2013% Today’s moth is a beautiful species from the Rocky Mountains outside of Denver, Epermenia stolidota (Epermeniidae). This is actually a larger specimen than it appears, about 20mm from wingtip to wingtip. Those raised, darkened, tufts of scales on the posterior edge of the forewing is a great character for this . . . → Read More: Dé Luain Leamhan