Hi Ray, How's it going? I was just going to mention that, like The Lepidopterists' Society, the Utah Lepidopterists' Society is also revamping its webpage to...
Andrew: (and to a general audience) I read your last thoughtful post, then spent three days east of Yosemite National Park to get more records and explore...
Hi all, I am planning to be in SE Arizona in a couple of days, and I was hoping some of you could help me on some species I still need. Species I am interested...
If you have time for a long walk, I can make a suggestion for nailing two and possibly four of your want list from my Ramsey July 4th Count route this past...
Heath, Fred
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Aug 4, 2004 1:17 am
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Overcast day. A drive up to Kitt Peak observatory produced a few roadside bugs. Lyside Sulphur (Kricogonia lyside)- 3 Two-tailed Swallowtail (Papilio...
Partly cloudy day until 11:40 am then clouded over and rained in the canyon. Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)- 35 Saw most of them on the drive down in the...
Everyone: Andy Warren brought up the subject of reprints of scientific papers. He commented that writers get reprints to distribute to others that want copies...
Ken, In ten years the present system of publisher-dominated scientific publishing will be dead. Almost all scientific papers will be electronic and freely...
Patrick Foley
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Aug 6, 2004 4:32 pm
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Let me both agree and disagree with Patrick. First, reprints are indeed essentially dead, being replaced by pdf files. This is an excellent thing as there are...
Bruce Walsh
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Aug 6, 2004 5:22 pm
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Patrick Foley wrote: Ken, In ten years the present system of publisher-dominated scientific publishing will be dead. Almost all scientific papers will be...
I agree that journals take article reviewing seriously. But not to the extent that they 1) pay the reviewer so that they take the job seriously, 2 use enough...
Patrick Foley
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Aug 6, 2004 8:33 pm
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... From: Kenneth E Davenport To: SoWestLep@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 10:51 AM Subject: [SoWestLep] scientific paper reprints snip ...
... From: Bruce Walsh To: Kenneth E Davenport ; Patrick Foley Cc: SoWestLep Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 1:20 PM Subject: Re: [SoWestLep] scientific paper...
My persistent campaign of drenching my desert Papilio pupae is paying off, at least for my Dead Mountains rudkini. As of this evening, I have one male Rudkin's...
The coloro pupa that produced the "cancerous" but otherwise perfect male was NOT perfect even before this happened. What I mean is that the costas of the wing...
Patrick: James Adams shared his frustration with the review process last May or June. It must really be a horrible feeling to work hard on such a project and...
... As a partial proof of what Bruce says. i.e., that some journals take the review of manuscripts very seriously (and that some journals do not only publish...
Stanley A. Gorodenski
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Aug 7, 2004 3:12 pm
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test ... From: Ron Gatrelle [mailto:gatrelle@...] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 3:36 PM To: SoWestLep@yahoogroups.com; Kenneth E Davenport Subject:...
Lethaby, Nick
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Aug 9, 2004 3:53 pm
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Dear Lepsters, Hank Brodkin and I visited the Canelo Hills Cienega Preserve today to search for butterflies and odonates. This is a Nature Conservancy site at...
Hi All,
The scientific name for the SE Arizona (and Mexican) skipper, Codatractus mysie, has been changed to Codatractus valeriana. Anyone interested in...
I would like some feedback from anyone who has reared Phyciodes tharos (Pearl Crescent) and has photos of the larvae and/or pupae. I have posted two photos...
I had my first Queen of the year by Devereux Slough in Goleta today. It will be interesting to see if there is a big influx like last year....
Lethaby, Nick
nlethaby@...
Aug 13, 2004 11:48 pm
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Hi all, This past week (August 6-9), I had a very successful (it was downright awesome) trip to SE Arizona. Here are the highlights (the double asterisk...
... Glassy-winged Skipper (Xenophanes tryxus) - August 14, 2004 - Santa Ana NWR, Alamo, Hidalgo Co., TX Vacerra litana - August 10, 2004 - ~50 mi NE of Ciudad...
Mike, can you define "rarity" for us? Seems like just about all of these species are reported from south Texas every year. I have noted a few corrections to ...
Hi All- Watching the thunderheads and lightning over the San Gabriel Mts last night from my mothing site near Pyramid Lake off I-5, I was wondering what...
Andy, As the RGV comes out of the drought, some of the listed species are being sighted annually, though I wouldn't say that makes them common. The rarest of...
Mike and Andy: Just a note to caution against using the Season Summary database to assess when last captures of anything were. The annual Season Summary ...