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Jim Wolford wrote:
> Derek, don't take it for granted that everyone knows that TB stands
> not for tuberculosis, but for Tiger Beetle. I for one think there are
> far too many abbreviations from various contributors on this list.
> And your clue below about cicindelaphiles probably did not help many
> on this list.
Hi Jim, Derek & All, May 11, 2007
Those on the list who would fail to notice the connection between
cicindela.. and TB should widen their field of view a bit. Natural
History includes much more than birds. I recall (vaguely) only one
abbreviation on Naturens that puzzled; NMC perhaps. And local names,
like Palmeter Woods, will often mean little to those who live elsewhere.
But would it not be glorious if Governments, and mechanisms in
general, worked as well as Naturens does ?
In the context of math and Biology, the terms haploid and diploid
come to mind. So 1/2 + 1/2 = 2; bio-math. In Poultry Science, feed
efficiency is measured as weight of feed required to produce unit weight
of bird. So if a bird uses a feed mixture more efficiently then
'efficiency' decreases; how logical.
To paraphrase some forgotten comic, I used to be a perfectionist but
quit when I realized I wasn't good enough at it.
Yt, DW, Kentville
>
> Also, I do like "lepsters" better than Peter's "lepers".
>
> P.S., Just to show that I am not infallible myself, I did notice that
> in my note on Bernard Forsythe's banded adult barred owl, banded in
> 1998 and refound in 2007 does NOT add up to an interval eight years;
> as Tom Lehrer once said (sort of, re new math), has everybody got the
> answer? My fingers tell me the answer is nine.
>
> Bernard tells me that this adult owl has probably been a parent owl in
> that particular box, near White Rock, for several years -- it's just
> that Bernard was lucky to discover the band just this Spring.
>
> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
> ----------
> From: "d.bridgehouse" <d.bridgehouse@ns.sympatico.ca>
> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 17:55:54 -0300
> To: NATURENS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Subject: [NatureNS] First butterfly & TB of spring
>
>
> Hey lepsters & cicindelaphiles - I was out walking the Shearwater
> Flyer Trail in Eastern Passage this aft and came across my first lep
> of spring that being a Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon form lucia ) and
> also my first TB of the spring that being the 12-Spotted TB ( C.
> duodecimgutatta ) .
>
> Also Joe Purcell reports seeing the Hairy-Necked TB (C. hirticollis
> ) at Lawrencetown Beach.
>
> Cheers , DB
>
>
> ***********************
> Derek W.Bridgehouse
> 85 Prince Albert Rd.
> Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
> B2Y 1M1
> CANADA
> d.bridgehouse@ns.sympatico.ca
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