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i really like old species descriptions
the species in question
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MYSTERY CATERPILLAR OF THE AMAZON!
family Sphingidae, Manu Biological Station, Peru
Apparently, for years, the identity of this caterpillar has been a mystery. We may be very close to solving the mystery!
People have seen this large gorgeous caterpillar for ages, but have never been able to figure out what it grows/metamorphoses into... what species is it?
Entomologist Gwen Erdosh (Gwentomologist), currently the Volunteer Coordinator at the Manu Biological Station in Madre de Dios, Peru, has collected one, determined its host plant, and got it to pupate!
Luckily, I got to meet the larva before it pupated, and snap a few photos.
Hopefully, we will know soon, and the mystery will be solved!
- Paxon
THE MYSTERY HAS BEEN SOLVED!!!
The mystery caterpillar of the Amazon has been identified!
Gwen Erdosh has successfully raised the caterpillar, and it has fully metamorphosed.
We knew that it was a Sphinx Moth, family Sphingidae, but no on seemed to know what species it was.
This gorgeous caterpillar is the larva of Manduca neglecta!
photographs by Gwen Erdosh (Gwentomologist)
Have a look at some of the ID process on Inaturalist.
Watch Gwen's videos/posts about this on Instagram (1), (2) Instagram, and (2) Instagram.
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MYSTERY CATERPILLAR OF THE AMAZON!
family Sphingidae, Manu Biological Station, Peru
Apparently, for years, the identity of this caterpillar has been a mystery. We may be very close to solving the mystery!
People have seen this large gorgeous caterpillar for ages, but have never been able to figure out what it grows/metamorphoses into... what species is it?
Entomologist Gwen Erdosh (Gwentomologist), currently the Volunteer Coordinator at the Manu Biological Station in Madre de Dios, Peru, has collected one, determined its host plant, and got it to pupate!
Luckily, I got to meet the larva before it pupated, and snap a few photos.
Hopefully, we will know soon, and the mystery will be solved!
- Paxon
THE MYSTERY HAS BEEN SOLVED!!!
The mystery caterpillar of the Amazon has been identified!
Gwen Erdosh has successfully raised the caterpillar, and it has fully metamorphosed.
We knew that it was a Sphinx Moth, family Sphingidae, but no on seemed to know what species it was.
This gorgeous caterpillar is the larva of Manduca neglecta!
photographs by Gwen Erdosh (Gwentomologist)
Have a look at some of the ID process on Inaturalist.
Watch Gwen's videos/posts about this on Instagram (1), (2) Instagram, and (2) Instagram.
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Stumbled across this public post about this from the person who made the dress.
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If you don’t live in a place like this you don’t have a sense of how cold it has to be for running water to turn to crystal like this. It has to be much colder than it has to be to freeze standing water. Take hand warmers in your pockets if you’re taking images like this. One time I didn’t and found I couldn’t move the fingers on my right hand at all. I had to bend them with my other hand in order to get my right hand into my coat pocket. ❄️🥶
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For all the issues the wolf reintroduction has caused in Colorado (wolf reintroduction=good, the way Colorado has done it=horrid), the one that I have not seen literally anyone talk about is the fact that everyone with a single goat went out and got a livestock guardian dog, chucked them out in the fields without any training, and just called it good. So now we've got a bunch of half feral livestock guardian dogs running around everywhere, just making up their own territories and attacking anyone who wanders through. One attacked my sister's CAR while she was going almost 30mph a few months back. Imagine if that had been a kid on an ATV, not an adult woman in an enclosed vehicle? When we called the non-emergency number to let them know, the dispatcher literally groaned and said, "not again. Nobody is training these things!"
"Wolves are going to start attacking people!11!" No, bitch, your fucking Anatolian Shepherd is.
Instincts still require training and refinement. You do not want a large, independent-natured dog making up its own rules. You will not like many of those rules.
And some individuals won't have good instincts and will require extra training, or plain won't work out.
English shepherds are herding dogs. Australian cattle dogs are herding dogs. My ES/ACD mix dog had zero herding instinct but would have made a decent livestock guardian. He had no desire to chase the sheep. When I *made* him chase the sheep he apparently assumed it was hunting time and bit the sheep. A sharp recall and he was back beside me showing no interest again in the sheep.
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Salamander of the Gods: From Aztecs to Axolotls
The axolotl has been called a “conservation paradox” — a creature that is ubiquitous in pet stores, science labs and pop culture… yet almost extinct in the wild. The axolotl is an amphibian with incredible regenerative abilities. It lives in only one place outside captivity: the waters of Lake Xochimilco, in Mexico City. Now, a team of scientists is working to secure its future by looking to its past. Working with local farmers, they’re reconstructing a system of chinampas, or island gardens, pioneered by the Aztecs — to restore the axolotl’s habitat. A few hours’ drive to the west, another team is working to save a closely related salamander species by teaming up with Dominican nuns who have raised the creatures in captivity for well over a century. The unusual alliances show that saving species can be as much about culture and heritage as it is about science.
via: Nature on PBS
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day 27: community 🍽️
for @montereybayaquarium 's deep sea december prompts!
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Green Tiger Moth (Chlorhoda thoracica), family Erebidae, Peru
photograph by Alejo Lopez
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Huge fucking weevil!!!!
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Snowcap (Microchera albocoronata), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, Costa Rica
photograph by Cayce Jehaimi
