Belize Butterflies

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In article <ce08c389.362f9043 at aol.com>,
  Burnetted at aol.com wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for the new thread!  I have stopped reading the common vs scientific
> name thread.  I have a question for you (and others interested in the topic).
>
> I spent two weeks in Belize in July in an ecology workshop for teachers, one
> week in the jungle, and one on a caye.  I was the only person on the trip
> interested in butterflies, and had no resources for identifying what I saw, so
> I came home with exactly three field identifications of species I know from
> North America.  Very frustrating!  In birding, I did much better because I had
> Howell & Webb's *Birds of Mexico and Central America*.
>
> So here's my question:  Are there any resources (books, monographs, etc.) for
> field identification of butterflies in Belize?  I hope to go again next summer
> and would love to be able to record what I see.  (I won't be doing a
> collection, just field identification and photography.)
>
> Thanks for helping us move on.
>
> Dennis Burnette
> Greensboro, NC
> burnetted at aol.com
>
>
Hi
There is an article in the last issue of "news of the Lepidopterists' Society"
about Belize, made by Mathew Barnes.
The reference who can reach is http://www.belizenet.com/pookshill.html
Hope it will help you.
Laurent
http://pages.infinit.net/laurentl

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