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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Hello Katherine Nesheim,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>As a person involved with insects (to the detriment of about everything else in my life, except land management for diversity of life), I have a question about the new website that was sent to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__classinsecta.org_&d=AwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=rvCfL3XoePYC3AHf84s-J9qEr3So91Gim5CCtqMGxwQ&s=kb5uyknUpMKBuHdXkhDFwehYldNI-NilNWVQtZBP1hI&e=">http://classinsecta.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.kickstarter.com_projects_1145981097_class-2Dinsecta&d=AwMFAg&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=rvCfL3XoePYC3AHf84s-J9qEr3So91Gim5CCtqMGxwQ&s=z2oGf1nRBatgITOQ8OxSyQnmqtb2WMaOZ1jL3wGnTcc&e=">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1145981097/class-insecta</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Why reinvent the wheel?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Good golly, BugGuide is very easy to use and taps into professionals, top notch folks, worldwide, all in an effort to ID insects and learn more about them, their ecology and life cycles. I’ve been involved in trying to educate people as to the ‘How To’ of Bug Guide for sometime. BugGuide is easy to use but sometimes just walking folks through the process, especially younger aged folks, from field photography, through photo software and editing, to posting (and interacting) on BugGuide is so much easier when someone teaches hands-on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>BugGuide can always use more collaborators and editors. You may even recall the founder of BugGuide, a computer programmer and an insect enthusiast, easily got way over his head with the explosion of BG. That’s when Iowa State University took over the management of the computers and basic data set up. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>I attended one of the annual BG Gatherings and was delighted by the number of children in attendance, finding and photographing bugs, and having lots of fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>I did look at your website and rec’d this message:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Resource Limit Is Reached<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Always curious.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>MJ Hatfield<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>NE Iowa<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>