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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:37:23 -0400
From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca>
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On 8/18/2011 10:37 AM, Angus MacLean wrote:
> Yes, leps have been extremely scarce this year. I can count on my
> fingers the number of species I have found this summer which is
> ridiculous. Considering this is the second year of the Butterfly
> atlassing, that's very depressing.

* and inappropriate weather for the Butterflies will cause the Atlas to 
be unrepresentative of the 2010's, and be a poor comparison when it's 
repeated in the future. It's a real problem when a whole year is 
inappropriateness of a year for sampling particular kinds of organisms. 
In working with freshwater mussels, we depend on low water to get us 
within reach of our subjects, for example, and a drought year is much 
more productive than one in which Corn grows well.

I wonder if the butterfly Atlas could agitate with its funders for a 
third year to complete the work that could have been done in two sunny 
bright years.

fred schueler
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          Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm
now in the field on the Thirty Years Later Expedition -
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     RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
   on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
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