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World versus The Moth: part 3 (2) Lev Bely

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!

31.05.2012 18:48 Peter Khramov

Music is impressive indeed...

Entomology jobs: Moscow Butterfly House, Pest Management Institution and Auburn University (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

26.05.2012 20:01 Lev Bely

Entomologist for Moscow Butterfly House Moscow Butterfly House has an open Entomologist vacancy. He/she is expected to care of the House's insects ...

Butterfly House The Panhandle Butterfly House in Florida (USA) invites volunteers (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

26.05.2012 16:17 Lev Bely

The Butterfly House The Panhandle Butterfly House in Florida, USA, 24 May opened the new season. Butterflies are in abundance, but the guides ...

Maine needs butterfly surveyors (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

24.05.2012 21:07 Lev Bely

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is to teach state residents how to identify butterflies. Everyone is welcome to join a ...

Butterfly-shaped drone: the newest Israel's indoor surveillance project (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

22.05.2012 16:01 Lev Bely

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 ...

Entomology jobs: BASF, Astrakhan State University and The Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

19.05.2012 21:41 Lev Bely

BASF: Research Station Entomologist for the Agricultural Research Station in Dinuba, California BASF SE is the largest chemical company in the ...

Heliconius melpomene genome sequenced: butterflies crossbreed to survive (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

18.05.2012 16:43 Lev Bely

More than 70 scientists from 9 institutions including The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, sequenced the genome of the Postman butterfly ...

Largest butterfly migration recorded in Canada (1) Lev Bely

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. ...

16.05.2012 21:56 Lev Bely

Approximately 300 million red admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterflies moved from Windsor (Canada, Ontario) to New Brunswick. Such a massive ...

Dalceridae jewel caterpillars (4) Lev Bely

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 ...

15.05.2012 1:16 Peter Khramov

Those ants behaved like country pooches, surrounded that jewel Dalceridae and yapping, yapping...

London's Olympic Games spectators may suffer from oak processionary moth poisonous caterpillars (3) Lev Bely

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 ...

11.05.2012 22:53 Vasiliy Feoktistov

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 16000 butterflies donated to the Natural History Museum of Utah (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

08.05.2012 21:31 Lev Bely

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 ...

The first book of Mumbai butterflies (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

07.05.2012 21:56 Lev Bely

There are still butterflies in Mumbai albeit they're increasingly getting lack of habitation space due to the growing deforestation and developing ...

Bradley Elementary School (South Carolina) students released butterflies (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

05.05.2012 20:29 Lev Bely

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 ...

“The caterpillar is not so hideous as its venom”, South Florida would say (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

02.05.2012 22:00 Lev Bely

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 ...

“Scoop net”-optera versus Lepidoptera: Part II (4) Lev Bely

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!

01.05.2012 20:53 Lev Bely

Done.

Reading: few more decent butterfly books (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

29.04.2012 20:08 Lev Bely

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 butterfly collection at the California Academy of Sciences (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

27.04.2012 20:58 Lev Bely

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 to be celebrated in Moscow, Russia, on May 1 (5) Lev Bely

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 ...

25.04.2012 13:19 Dmitriy Pozhogin

Irina Ishkhanovna won't practice such a nonsense.

Storms showered Nebraska (USA) with butterflies (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

23.04.2012 16:58 Lev Bely

Strong storms moved through the Midwest (USA) lately and brought unwelcome guests to Nebraska. Leon Highley, an entomologist from the University of ...

Damien Hirst's great and terrible butterflies (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

20.04.2012 23:09 Lev Bely

It was butterflies who brought fame to Damien Hirst, a fancy English artist and famous provocateur who in turn demonstrates his devotion putting ...

Lubbock (USA, TX) residents are disturbed with moth invasion (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

18.04.2012 18:45 Lev Bely

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 ...

Garden blooming for butterflies (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

17.04.2012 19:14 Lev Bely

Butterflies might overlook quite the stuff but an exuberant, bloomy garden. Plant your garden with native plants that will surely attract various ...

Butterflies react to the climate warming (2) Lev Bely

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 ...

15.04.2012 21:49 Peter Khramov

What's so appealing in interviewing folks?.. Why not just show butt-flies accompanied with off-screen voices...

Lecture: “Sesiidae: the gathering and breeding” at Timiryazev State Biological Museum, Moscow (Russia) (1) Lev Bely

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. ...

11.04.2012 19:31 Lev Bely

Today, April 12th there will be a lecture “Sesiidae: the gathering and breeding” at Timiryazev State Biological Museum, Moscow (Russia). The ...

Awesome critter: the Oleander moth (3) Lev Bely

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 ...

05.04.2012 21:01 Igor Sakhno

As for video, that would be wonderful!

Education: University of Nebraska—Lincoln distance entomology courses (4) Lev Bely

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 ...

01.04.2012 10:21 Vasiliy Feoktistov

Seems to be Eurytides marcellus? Much pity. Isn't it protected in USA (I read it somewhere)? No words, just paradox!

New generation spy: the cyborg moth (2) Lev Bely

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 ...

25.03.2012 19:21 Lev Bely

“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 ...

“Butterflies Go Free” exhibition at the Montreal Botanical Garden (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

24.03.2012 16:50 Lev Bely

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 ...

No Miami blue butterfly on Florida's coasts anymore (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

20.03.2012 14:47 Lev Bely

Last year august the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced an emergency listing* of the Miami Blue Butterfly (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri) as ...

Park for butterflies in Palmerston North, New Zealand (1) Lev Bely

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, ...

14.03.2012 23:03 Lev Bely

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, ...

Spring butterfly hunt in Holgates Silverdale Park, Cumbria (2) Lev Bely

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 ...

13.03.2012 16:47 Peter Khramov

How to spend the Easter holidays?))

Peppered moth is an accurate example of natural selection (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

10.03.2012 23:37 Lev Bely

The darkening of the peppered moth (Biston betularia) often met in school textbooks as a case study for adaptation, was confirmed as an accurate ...

A moth tsar Attacus atlas posed for a photographer Sandesh Kadur (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

10.03.2012 19:04 Lev Bely

Sandesh Kadur photographer met a giant Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) during his trip through the eastern Himalayas where he headed for to study and ...

Artist Paul Villinski brought butterflies to East Rockaway School, NY (2) Lev Bely

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 ...

08.03.2012 20:52 Peter Khramov

Wonder where you could only dig such out...

Two new exhibitions at Timiryazev State Biological Museum (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

07.03.2012 20:52 Lev Bely

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 fertilized butterfly by its smell (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

20.02.2012 16:41 Lev Bely

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 ...

Judy Istock Butterfly Haven at The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (3) Lev Bely

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 ...

18.02.2012 19:20 Lev Bely

Cyborgias!

Topic: Arctic butterflies at the Athol Bird and Nature Club gathering, MA (2) Lev Bely

“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 ...

14.02.2012 23:15 Peter Khramov

These guys are truly nice...

Grizzly vs. moths, BBC vs. grizzly (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

13.02.2012 22:37 Lev Bely

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 El Segundo Blue Butterfly comes back to LA (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

13.02.2012 21:56 Lev Bely

The endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly (Euphilotes battoides allyni) population increases in the Dunes Habitat Preserve at Los Angeles ...

Neither fish nor flesh, or what butterflies actually prefer (3) Lev Bely

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 ...

12.02.2012 14:49 Dmitriy Pozhogin

Not seen clearly. Seem to be Hesperiidae as its antennas say.

I've missed the last train... again (2) Lev Bely

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 ...

11.02.2012 22:19 Peter Khramov

:--)) Superb.

The “Alive Tropical Butterflies and Moths” exhibition at the Volzhsky city Regional History Museum, Russia (3) Lev Bely

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 ...

11.02.2012 16:12 Peter Khramov

Ha!

The Insect Museum in Pyatigorsk, Russia (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

10.02.2012 16:55 Lev Bely

The Insect Museum works since 1995 in the Akademicheskaya (Elizavetinskaya) gallery in Pyatigorsk, Russia. There is a collection of about 1000 ...

The Křídla Motýlí exhibition of Max Švabinský's works in Kroměříž, the Czech Republic (1) Lev Bely

“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 ...

07.02.2012 23:03 Lev Bely

“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 is held on July 23—29 (1) Lev Bely

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 ...

06.02.2012 20:29 Lev Bely

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 ...

Turkey: The Butterfly Valley and other curious views (8) Lev Bely

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 ...

03.02.2012 21:57 Peter Khramov

Matter of course, it's not. Anyway, it's nicer to hold this ignorant side than staying aside...)

Sori Yanagi's Butterfly Stool (1) Lev Bely

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. ...

02.02.2012 21:07 Lev Bely

On December, 25th Sori Yanagi, the Japanese designer and creator of the famous Butterfly Stool, died in Tokyo. He invented both simple and ...

Education: N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, the Faculty of Biology (3) Lev Bely

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 ...

01.02.2012 23:04 Peter Khramov

It works fine by my side. Check out your settings, can you hear other sounds?)

Most biggest world's moth in the Perm city Butterfly Park (2) Lev Bely

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, ...

31.01.2012 17:12 Peter Khramov

There are two giraffes at the video thumbnail.

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