A Puzzling Decline in Butterflies - San Francisco Chronicle 12/22/99

[Chuck Vaughn]

>Entomologists find the data particularly worrisome because the decline is so 
>widespread and there is no clear reason for it. 

I noticed the article didn't make any mention of the incredibly late
summer we had this year. Temperatures were below average until August
here in the SF Bay area. Might that have something to do with it?

Chuck <aa6g at aa6g.org>