Brazilian Amazon

[Chris Raper]

On 18 Jul 1998 06:33:03 -0700, hankb at theriver.com (Hank Brodkin)
wrote:

>Chris Raper wrote:
>> Well, as long as nets were allowed for a non-killing purpose I would
>> be interested. To try to id something on-the-wing would be nigh
>> impossible out there - and forget about waiting for them to settle!

>Nets for ID should be OK unless their use was forbidden by local
>authorities.

Hi Hank,

Mmm - if nets are totally banned in any area I'd rather go to an place
that allowed them. Without being able to look at what's flying it just
becomes a sightseeing trip and pretty pointless form even an amateur
scientific point of view.

>> A copy of all 6 or 7 D'Aberera's "Neotropical Butterflies of the
>> World" volumes would be another recommendation.

>Probably cost as much as the trip itself?

But worth it - especially if no specimens are to be taken. Jim is
probably very good on his Neotropical Leps but no-one can hold enough
field information to be able to _reliably_ ID every butterfly they see
in a place like Brazil. 

If the trip was a 'sightseeing' butterfly-appreciation trip then
perhaps the members wouldn't have to know what they were looking at
but if I go to a place like that I would want to come away with a
pretty good idea of what I had seen - as well as apprectating the
beauty of the butterflies themselves of course :-)


Chris R.