AW: [meteorite-list] Lepidopterist
From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Mar 7 14:12:15 2006 Message-ID: <C0331B00.29377%mlblood_at_cox.net> Doug, Lepidopterist? I had no idea you made eye glasses for leopards. Michael on 3/7/06 10:50 AM, MexicoDoug_at_aol.com at MexicoDoug@aol.com wrote: > Martin A. writes: > > << I'm not a lepidopterologist, >> > > Hola Martin believe it or not, I am an Lepidopterist, well at least an > amateur for many years ! > > Your suggestion is also what I immediately thought when I saw the subject in > my emails. I don't have time at the moment to look into this, but if anyone > has some time, during peaks in the population of Painted Lady butterflies > (_Vanessa cardui_) red rains have appeared and been harbingers of things to > come in > the typical scaring peasants routine like comets, in history on several > ocassions, as a matter of fact...so wherever this red rain has appeared (I > haven't > been following the thread),it would be easy to check to see if it coincides > with a population spike and new brood of cardui's. The Painted Lady is one of > the few butterflies with nearly a worldwide distribution and seemingly > migration runs en masse. For this reason, in the US it has been used in > releases in > weddings (instead of throwing rice:)). The is a contingent of ecologists that > oppose this due to claimed changes in local gene pools (mostly for Monarchs). > Since the butterfly farming industry for weddings (and funerals) took off a > few years back and most people don't hear the scientists' bellyaching that > experimental designs are screwed up when taking censuses for experimental work > and > possibly crosscontaminating gene pools and spreading plagues in the local > butterfly populations with the alien introductions of the same species, the > biggest appeal not to do this is the blood like liquid and hey if you are > getting > married, why the heck would you risk eith your butterflies express mailed > arriving dead or secreting "blood". That works a little better to dampen the > spirits. > > Anyway, sorry if I haven't read the thread enough and if this was already > discussed in more depth besides Martin's suggestion, > > Saludos, Doug > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list -- "He is not a lover who does not love forever." - Euripides (485-406BC) -- * If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?Received on Tue 07 Mar 2006 02:12:00 PM PST |
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