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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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Ponedjeljak Moljac Chris Grinter, 30. svibnja, 2011 Whoops, it’s almost Tuesday! Iznad je Schinia ligeae (Noctuidae) odmara na svom domaćinu postrojenja Xylorhiza tortifolia, the Mojave Aster. Sam fotografirao još prije oko tri tjedna izvan grada Big Pine, California. The asters were thick in the valleys below the snow capped Sierra, and the moths were abundant. Nekako to srednja Schinia dobiti daleko s bio napadan i lijeni, ne morate imati ni net da ih pokupi. Dovoljno je prošetati i savjet ih u staklenku – Mislim da je pritisak da se razvije više zagonetni ili vozni ponašanje nedostaje. Govoreći o upadljivo lijeni, Ja sam bio otišao za mnogo svibnja, a time i uspavati u bloganje. Sad kad su svadbe i proljeće polje sezone su više, Vratit ću se na stol i natrag na bloganje! Sviđa ti se? Sviđa mi se Učitavanje...