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01:57 PM PST
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março 12, 2023
08:44 AM UTC
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novembro 30, 2021
09:57 PM PST
Descrição
Lower Sunrise area. I'm specifically IDing this guy only to genus because preliminary genetics research, pers com Nick Van Gilder and Dr. Elizabeth Jockusch, suggests these are NOT B. attenuatus. TBD.
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maio 1, 2021
01:48 PM PDT
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maio 11, 2019
04:37 AM UTC
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abril 27, 2019
06:30 PM PDT
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abril 27, 2019
06:31 PM PDT
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agosto 24, 2018
08:46 PM UTC
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fevereiro 13, 2018
02:48 PM PST
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Pictures of multiple different ringtails, trapped during the night and released during the day (done with proper permits).
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dezembro 14, 2017
02:40 AM CST
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You know you’ve found a large moth when…
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After a 40 year career as a wildlife biologist, you can’t believe what you’re seeing is real.
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Your ruler isn’t long enough to get a good measurement (2nd image), so you go back to get a longer ruler (3rd image) and that isn’t long enough, so you scramble around to find a carpenter’s measuring tape to fully span the wings (4th image).
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Your astonishment is like the joy of a child on Christmas morning; you start laughing and giggling uncontrollably.
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The largest moth on your sheet has a wingspan 40X the size of the smallest one.
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You stay up until 3:30 a.m. journaling about one moth.
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You start taking selfies...with a moth (last image).
To the best of my ability to measure this critter, the wingspan (with a bit of the tip of the right FW missing) is about 27.8 cm, so it would probably be about 28.5 cm (11.2 in) if it were intact. The species is said to have the largest wingspan of any Lepidopteran in the world.
The moth was initially discovered on the sheet by Mary Kay Sexton. I had overlooked it.
To read more of the story, see:
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/gcwarbler/13211-mothing-in-panama
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outubro 14, 2017
03:59 PM PDT
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Baby rattlesnake eating a western side-blotched lizard
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julho 14, 2017
12:09 PM PDT
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maio 12, 2017
06:34 PM UTC
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abril 14, 2017
04:56 PM PDT
What
Suiriri
(Tyrannus melancholicus)
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fevereiro 14, 2017
10:03 PM PST
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abril 18, 2016
10:04 PM NZST