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For herpetologists and malacologists, and some breeds of entomologists,
life is centred around what you find after flipping cover objects to
expose the cryptozootic occupants (this isn't the technical term for
species that spend their lives under cover, but I can't find or remember
the correct term).
It's just come to my attention that this primal activity, like so many
others, has had a day named after it, that flip-a-rock day is tomorrow,
12 September, and that a weblog is being created from the findings of
rock flippers around the globe.
Bev Wigney has put up a short blog post about this at -
http://magickcanoe.com/blog11/2010/09/11/flip-a-rock-on-september-12/ -
and we'll be doing her place at Round Hill, Nova Scotia, to see what
she's got in the way of Succineid snails, Sowbugs, and slugs.
We'll be sending any Sowbugs (Woodlice) or Harvestmen we uncover to Don
McAlpine at the New Brunswick Museum, who is making good on two
centuries of these groups of largely introduced species having been
shamefully ignored in Canada. Anyone who wants to help reduce the shame
of the way these groups have been ignored by contributing samples should
contact Don at <Donald.McAlpine [at] nbm-mnb.ca>.
fred.
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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 -
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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