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Today the one eager to wrestle the moth is a lizard (see pt. 1 and 2. Bet on the moth's win, and you won't lose. The perfect one — mighty and powerful, neither superhero nor supermachine, just an ordinary Sphingidae. Hit but staying alive!
Music is impressive indeed...
Entomologist for Moscow Butterfly House Moscow Butterfly House has an open Entomologist vacancy. He/she is expected to care of the House's insects such as spiders, bugs, lizards, cockroaches and others. The position implies 12 4-hour working days ...
Entomologist for Moscow Butterfly House Moscow Butterfly House has an open Entomologist vacancy. He/she is expected to care of the House's insects ...
The Butterfly House The Panhandle Butterfly House in Florida, USA, 24 May opened the new season. Butterflies are in abundance, but the guides do not suffice. Volunteers are needed to conduct tours and educational programs for visitors to the ...
The Butterfly House The Panhandle Butterfly House in Florida, USA, 24 May opened the new season. Butterflies are in abundance, but the guides ...
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is to teach state residents how to identify butterflies. Everyone is welcome to join a special butterfly identification training that starts off this June. Those who will take part are also ...
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is to teach state residents how to identify butterflies. Everyone is welcome to join a ...
Look back: your own home may host not only inobnoxious moths but also an insect drone watching you. Here it goes, latest Israel's indoor surveillance project — a small “butterfly” that weighs just 20 grams, a unique and perfect spy which has ...
Look back: your own home may host not only inobnoxious moths but also an insect drone watching you. Here it goes, latest Israel's indoor ...
BASF: Research Station Entomologist for the Agricultural Research Station in Dinuba, California BASF SE is the largest chemical company in the world headquartered in Germany. The BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than ...
BASF: Research Station Entomologist for the Agricultural Research Station in Dinuba, California BASF SE is the largest chemical company in the ...
More than 70 scientists from 9 institutions including The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, sequenced the genome of the Postman butterfly (@@Heliconius melpomene@@), a favorite one among collectors and researchers since the very Victorian ...
More than 70 scientists from 9 institutions including The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, sequenced the genome of the Postman butterfly ...
Approximately 300 million red admiral (@@Vanessa atalanta@@) butterflies moved from Windsor (Canada, Ontario) to New Brunswick. Such a massive butterfly migration through Eastern Canada was caused by the unusually warm winter in North America. ...
Approximately 300 million red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterflies moved from Windsor (Canada, Ontario) to New Brunswick. Such a massive ...
Lately the web was charmed with photos of the amazing jewel caterpillar looking like a juicy, translucent, gelatinous gummy bear. One to be blamed is Gerardo Aizpuru, a scuba instructor and amateur wildlife photographer, who shot this caterpillar ...
Those ants behaved like country pooches, surrounded that jewel Dalceridae and yapping, yapping...
The Olympic Games may be ruined with bad guests that are expected to be there right in time. Whilst the authorities are settling up missile weapons on the city roofs to protect (everybody) against potential terrorist attacks, the real threat may ...
I wonder if there is cow parsnip in the UK, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_(plant)? We've got lots of it. Once my junior brother made a ...
James Pearce's love with entomology began in his childhood when he was exploring Mill Creek Canyon with a gossamer net to find butterflies. Then his interest took him to study science and medicine particularly yet he didn't quit collecting ...
James Pearce's love with entomology began in his childhood when he was exploring Mill Creek Canyon with a gossamer net to find butterflies. Then ...
There are still butterflies in Mumbai albeit they're increasingly getting lack of habitation space due to the growing deforestation and developing industry. So it was chosen to count the rest what resulted in the first book of butterflies of ...
There are still butterflies in Mumbai albeit they're increasingly getting lack of habitation space due to the growing deforestation and developing ...
The bee was always the mascot at Bradley Elementary School in Columbia, South Carolina, but last Friday it went on a small vacation. That Friday turned for a while into a butterfly day. Few weeks ago the 2nd grade students started raising ...
The bee was always the mascot at Bradley Elementary School in Columbia, South Carolina, but last Friday it went on a small vacation. That Friday ...
We obviously get more cautious when we spot a wasp, bee or spider. Better take care, anyone could prudently think. Though you may easily add to this “could-be-dangerous” list one more critter that is a bright, colorful caterpillar innocently ...
We obviously get more cautious when we spot a wasp, bee or spider. Better take care, anyone could prudently think. Though you may easily add to ...
Once again (see Part I there: http://lepidoptera.pro/community/8230), the small critter throws a big one staying fearless and cool-blooded. The dog was fighting with might and main, though in vain!
Done.
Modern bookstores are ready to offer you a full range of whatsoever butterfly books from a thin brochure to a large heavy volume that might tell about anything but the butterflies. Yet a good home library should be rather made up of best and worth ...
Modern bookstores are ready to offer you a full range of whatsoever butterfly books from a thin brochure to a large heavy volume that might tell ...
The California Academy of Sciences found in 1853 has a world's largest biological collection of over than 20 million specimens including 17 million insects. The video underneath gives an interesting short review from an Entomology Department ...
The California Academy of Sciences found in 1853 has a world's largest biological collection of over than 20 million specimens including 17 million ...
1st Butterfly Day initiated by Moscow Butterfly House will be celebrated in Moscow (Russia) on May 1st. The event will take place at the All-Russia Exhibition Center starting with a flash mob everyone is welcome to join. To participate, you should ...
Irina Ishkhanovna won't practice such a nonsense.
Strong storms moved through the Midwest (USA) lately and brought unwelcome guests to Nebraska. Leon Highley, an entomologist from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said that butterflies and moths which presently flutter around Lincoln and ...
Strong storms moved through the Midwest (USA) lately and brought unwelcome guests to Nebraska. Leon Highley, an entomologist from the University of ...
It was butterflies who brought fame to Damien Hirst, a fancy English artist and famous provocateur who in turn demonstrates his devotion putting them in an empty, unanimated windowless space at the Tate Modern gallery* in London, just to amuse ...
It was butterflies who brought fame to Damien Hirst, a fancy English artist and famous provocateur who in turn demonstrates his devotion putting ...
Moths have been hatching from last year eggs right inside homes of locals who literally have to dodge insects rushing out onto the streets. “The moths start off as army cut worms, and as adults become what are commonly known as miller moths ...
Moths have been hatching from last year eggs right inside homes of locals who literally have to dodge insects rushing out onto the streets. “The ...
Butterflies might overlook quite the stuff but an exuberant, bloomy garden. Plant your garden with native plants that will surely attract various butterflies. Choose the very native ones so as butterflies could feed on nectar and caterpillars do ...
Butterflies might overlook quite the stuff but an exuberant, bloomy garden. Plant your garden with native plants that will surely attract various ...
One of the latest studies* says that some butterflies get away from sun to shady forests. Albeit, only few do save themselves in such a way. “A lot of the butterflies we were looking at are threatened by climate change. With the warmer ...
What's so appealing in interviewing folks?.. Why not just show butt-flies accompanied with off-screen voices...
Today, April 12th there will be a lecture “Sesiidae: the gathering and breeding” at Timiryazev State Biological Museum, Moscow (Russia). The author is Oleg Gorbunov*, a doctor of biological sciences, the leading research associate of A.N. ...
Today, April 12th there will be a lecture “Sesiidae: the gathering and breeding” at Timiryazev State Biological Museum, Moscow (Russia). The ...
This moth of Arctiidae family is that very camel designed by a committee. The Polka-Dot Wasp moth (@@Syntomeida epilais@@) plays a wasp and has a quite vividly colored getup: its body and wings are iridescent blue-green; legs, wings and antennae ...
As for video, that would be wonderful!
The University of Nebraska—Lincoln, NE, chartered in 1869, today is an educational institution of international stature. UNL is listed by the Carnegie Foundation within the “Research Universities (very high research activity)” category. On ...
Seems to be Eurytides marcellus? Much pity. Isn't it protected in USA (I read it somewhere)? No words, just paradox!
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) researches successfully implanted an electric neural probe into the body of a huge, fist-sized moth. That's it, a pull-string spy is ready to use. Cyborg moth not only can be turned at will left or ...
“Cyborg bugs come to help” lecture by Dr. Michel Maharbiz from the University of California, Berkeley, will be held on March 26th at the Digital ...
How to tell the difference between moths and butterflies except knowing the fact that some are active during the day and others at night? The Montreal Botanical Garden makes it clear with over than 2000 alive butterflies and moths which flitting ...
How to tell the difference between moths and butterflies except knowing the fact that some are active during the day and others at night? The ...
Last year august the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced an emergency listing* of the Miami Blue Butterfly (@@Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri@@) as endangered, “We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), exercise our authority pursuant to ...
Last year august the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced an emergency listing* of the Miami Blue Butterfly (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri) as ...
Tucked away so that you hardly notice it even passing nearby, a small park in Apollo park somewhere at Milson outskirts, a Palmerston North suburb, being inch by inch turned with hands of its creator and inspired volunteers, into an unordinary, ...
Tucked away so that you hardly notice it even passing nearby, a small park in Apollo park somewhere at Milson outskirts, a Palmerston North suburb, ...
How to spend the Easter weekend? Hunting butterflies, obviously. Holgates Silverdale Park in Cumbria offers you to get your family together and enjoy the amazing spring bloomy nature. Holgates Silverdale Park which is wonderfully embedded in the ...
How to spend the Easter holidays?))
The darkening of the peppered moth (@@Biston betularia@@) often met in school textbooks as a case study for adaptation, was confirmed as an accurate example of natural selection, according to a study made by a biologist of the Harvard university ...
The darkening of the peppered moth (Biston betularia) often met in school textbooks as a case study for adaptation, was confirmed as an accurate ...
Sandesh Kadur photographer met a giant Atlas moth (@@Attacus atlas@@) during his trip through the eastern Himalayas where he headed for to study and shoot the local biodiversity. Early morning while driving somewhere in Arunachal Pradesh he ...
Sandesh Kadur photographer met a giant Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) during his trip through the eastern Himalayas where he headed for to study and ...
On February 16 “butterfly” artist Paul Villinski came to Centre Avenue Elementary School (East Rockaway, New York) and made a good thing: namely, he installed a cobalt-blue butterfly sculpture. They obviously could not let him leave ...
Wonder where you could only dig such out...
On February 18th Timiryazev State Biological Museum presented a new exhibition “New arrivals”. Over the past few years museum collections were supplied with more than 16000 new showpieces which are selectively shown at the exhibition. The ...
On February 18th Timiryazev State Biological Museum presented a new exhibition “New arrivals”. Over the past few years museum collections were ...
Parasitic wasp tracks down the Large White butterfly (@@Pieris brassicae@@) female which is ready to lay eggs by its special anti-sex smell that repels males. The wasp hangs on the butterfly and being carried suchwise to the Brussels sprout plants ...
Parasitic wasp tracks down the Large White butterfly (Pieris brassicae) female which is ready to lay eggs by its special anti-sex smell that repels ...
Hundreds of butterflies and moths flutter above pools of water, tropical trees and flowers in Judy Istock Butterfly Haven, a butterfly conservatory at The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. Whatsoever you happen to meet in the 2,700 square-foot ...
Cyborgias!
“Butterflies Near and Far” evening will be held on March, 14th in the Millers River Environmental Center, Massachusetts. This event will let you look into the world of Arctic butterflies, watch photos and listen to the expert naturalist Sue ...
These guys are truly nice...
BBC Planet Earth did all possible to watch unwatchable: namely, they fixed a powerful Canon HJ40 super-telephoto lens to a helicopter, combed through steep and seemingly desolate rock slopes for hours and, finally, found few grizzly bears that ...
BBC Planet Earth did all possible to watch unwatchable: namely, they fixed a powerful Canon HJ40 super-telephoto lens to a helicopter, combed through ...
The endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly (@@Euphilotes battoides allyni@@) population increases in the Dunes Habitat Preserve at Los Angeles International Airport. The Los Angeles Times reports that a lately made survey shows the species population ...
The endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly (Euphilotes battoides allyni) population increases in the Dunes Habitat Preserve at Los Angeles ...
Look at this photo (the author is Renee Mertz) of a diorama at Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum that shows butterflies sitting on a dead piranha and, seemingly... eating the poor fish? The question is not so simple. In fact, it's not such ...
Not seen clearly. Seem to be Hesperiidae as its antennas say.
Well, how about identifying a butterfly chaotically flying away having no any helpful stuff as a hand net, for instance? Poor otters had no success in making their collection complete whatsoever hard they tried to. Still, they did it good:) The ...
:--)) Superb.
Late January the “Alive Tropical Butterflies and Moths” exhibition opened at the Volzhsky city Regional History Museum. The museum exposes about 10 species and over 100 specimens of butterflies and moths from Southeast Asia, South America and ...
Ha!
The Insect Museum works since 1995 in the Akademicheskaya (Elizavetinskaya) gallery in Pyatigorsk, Russia. There is a collection of about 1000 tropical and Caucasian insects partly gathered by Valentin Tikhonov, entomologist and the owner of the ...
The Insect Museum works since 1995 in the Akademicheskaya (Elizavetinskaya) gallery in Pyatigorsk, Russia. There is a collection of about 1000 ...
“A Butterfly's Wing” (Křídla Motýlí) exhibition is open this Thursday, February 9th in the Small Gallery (Malá Galerie) of the Museum of Kroměříž district. The exhibition is dedicated to Max Švabinský, a well-known Czech painter ...
“A Butterfly's Wing” (Křídla Motýlí) exhibition is open this Thursday, February 9th in the Small Gallery (Malá Galerie) of the Museum of ...
The first National Moth Week calls on everyone who is interested in moths to take part in moth watching and surveying. During the Week there will be arranged a “Moth Night” for both professionals and amateurs could communicate and exchange stuff ...
The first National Moth Week calls on everyone who is interested in moths to take part in moth watching and surveying. During the Week there will be ...
Thousands of butterflies and moths from all over the Mediterranean coast are available to watch in Turkey, near Fethiye, in the Butterfly Valley (Kelebekler Vadisi). To see the rare Jersey Tiger (@@Euplagia quadripunctaria@@) people take water taxis ...
Matter of course, it's not. Anyway, it's nicer to hold this ignorant side than staying aside...)
On December, 25th Sori Yanagi, the Japanese designer and creator of the famous Butterfly Stool, died in Tokyo. He invented both simple and exceptionally elegant model performed with two pieces of moulded plywood that is fastened with brass rod. ...
On December, 25th Sori Yanagi, the Japanese designer and creator of the famous Butterfly Stool, died in Tokyo. He invented both simple and ...
The Faculty of Biology was the first faculty of the university as it was opened in 1916. Today it consists of 9 departments which are the Department of Botany, Department of Zoology, Department of Ecology, Department of Biochemistry and Plant ...
It works fine by my side. Check out your settings, can you hear other sounds?)
Next few days and no more in the Perm city Butterfly Park you can see the alive Atlas moth (@@Attacus atlas@@) which is one of the biggest world's moths both by its total wing surface area and wingspan. The wingspan can reach 25cm and even more, ...
There are two giraffes at the video thumbnail.