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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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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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