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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 Like this: Like Loading... 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! Like this: Like Loading... 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 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 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 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 Like this: Like Loading... 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 Like this: Like Loading... 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 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 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 Like this: Like Loading...
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LepCourse 2013 – učiti o moljaca i leptira! Chris Grinter, 22. srpnja, 2013 Ja sam uzbuđen što će i ove godine sudjeluje kao instruktor za Lepidoptera tečaj na jugozapadnom Research Station blizini Portal, Arizona. Ja ću biti jedan od osam ostalih instruktora koji će pružiti ruke i intenzivne 9-dana tečaj o prikupljanju, očuvanje i identifikacija Lepidoptera. Ja stvarno ne mogu zamisliti bolji način da saznate o moljaca i leptira nego u okruženju poput Chiricahua gorja tijekom vrhunca monsuna. Rezervacije su još uvijek otvorene! Uzmite trenutak da ide provjeriti Stranice Leptiri tečaj, i pregledavati Razgovori iz proteklih godina. Ja ću vas potaknuti da prisustvuju i nadam se da se vidimo u nekoliko tjedana! Sviđa ti se? Sviđa mi se Učitavanje...