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Index of Subjects 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 - http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/thirty/thirtyintro.htm Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------
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