CBA Spring Indoor Meeting

[ButterflyPR at comcast.net]

An early heads up, so you can all mark your calendars!

CT Butterfly Association Spring Meeting   
April 7, 2005, 7:30PM  
DAVID WAGNER presents: "Butterfly Conservation in Connecticut:A Post -
Butterfly Atlas Assessment of the State of the State" 
at the New Haven CT Agricultural Experiment Center

For five years, volunteers and professionals scoured Connecticut, looking
for butterflies.  The principal goal of this undertaking, known as the CT
Butterfly Atlas Project, was to assemble occurrence records so that the
conservation status of each the State's butterflies could be evaluated.
David Wagner has studied the data and will share with us his finds and
concerns regarding the butterflies of Connecticut.  He will be touching on
development, alien species, pesticides, critical habitats, & more.

What are Connecticut's 22 highest priority species?  What butterflies are
likely to be at-risk in the coming decades?  Join us and find out! FREE &
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC...Call (860)663-3225 if you have any questions. 

Dave Wagner is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at
the University of CT.  He is an entomologist with research interests in
taxonomy and classification of moths and is a keystone member of the State's
Advisory Panel for rare and endangered insects and other invertebrates. He
is the author of two handsome caterpillar field guides and has just
completed work on a lavishly illustrated book on caterpillars for Princeton
University Press.  Dave also authored several sections of the Connecticut
Butterfly Atlas.

Directions to Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station: From Route 91 get
off Willow St. exit (6).  Make right on Willow, take to end.  Make right
onto Whitney Avenue.  Make third left onto Huntingtion Street.  Ag. Station
will be a block and a half up on the right.  We meet in the Melissa Jones
Auditorium.

I'll be posting reminders as the date gets closer!
Diane