fall meeting reminder

Diane Adams barnacle at portone.com
Wed Oct 16 13:29:20 EDT 2002


Hi Everybody!

Figured it was time to remind people about next week's meeting.
Remember, it's free and open to the public, so bring your friends!  If
you need directions, feel free to email...

See you Tuesday!
Diane Adams


Connecticut Butterfly Association
Fall Indoor Meeting
Tuesday October 22, 2002
7:30 P.M.
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station's Jones Auditorium
123 Huntington St., New Haven

Topic:  We've Got the Blues out West: But How Many?
Speaker:  Paul Opler

The butterfly group known as the "Blues" (Lycaenidae: Polyommatini) have

always captured the interest of butterfliers.  And it appears there are
more Blues out west than anyone could have imagined.  Paul Opler has
been working on sorting them out.  Included in his talk will be stories
of the Didem Blues, "Scintillant" Blues, Azures, and Dotted Blues.  The
relationships of these butterflies to their hosts will be explored with
slides showing butterflies, their hosts, and habitats. Some preliminary
research results will be reported.

Paul Opler, author of several books on butterflies, including "A Field
Guide to Eastern Butterflies", is a professor at Colorado State
University where he curates the Lepidoptera collection at the C.P.
Gillette Museum and leads the research of several graduate students.  He

actively photographs and collects western butterflies and moths as well
as working on about 4 web sites dealing with Lepidoptera.  He is working

on two large butterfly handbooks for North  America to be published by
Oxford University Press.

You can view some of Paul Opler's and Evi Buckner's slides at
http://www.webaccess.net/~paulevi or www.butterflyfotos.com


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