Aglais and stuff

[Jim Taylor]

Folks,
Y'all know the simplest solution to this whole question was muffed at
Creation.  Had God made but one six-legged critter we could just call it
"Bug."
Jim Taylor
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Raper <triocomp at dial.pipex.com>
To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: Aglais and stuff


> On 11 Jun 1999 03:11:02 -0700, viceroy at anu.ie (Anne Kilmer) wrote:
>
> Hi Anne
>
> >I'm going back to calling them all Fred.
>
> Me too :-)  I must say this name debate is a bit boring to me. Names
> change, both common and scientific. The scientific names are more
> stable across different languages and cultures but sometimes some of
> us mortals just don't have the memory or the books to be able to post
> the latin as well as the familiar name and we suppose that the main,
> local readership will be able to deduce what we mean.
>
> Anyway - if I was writing a paper I will be sure to quote the right
> scientific names but if I quote common names in Usenet/Email people
> are welcome to ask me to clarify if they don't understand and I will
> have to go back to my books! :-)
>
> >Small Heath, Coenonympha pamphilus. Whom I have seen, but not this
> >year and not here.
>
> Shame - plenty of them over in South Oxfordshire and they have been
> out for a number of weeks now. As have Common Blue (Polyommatus
> icarus) and Brown Argus (Aricia agestis) - do you have them over in
> Ireland yet?
>
> >If the sun comes out I will go peruse the soggy gorse-filled bog next to
> >my house
>
> It's a tough life you lead out there :-)  You must get some pretty
> interesting stuff in the moth line - have you ever done any moth
> trapping - do you ID the things that come to your windows?
>
> >for Green Hairstreak, Callophrys rubi,
>
> They are starting to go over here - they may even have gone :-( Along
> with Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus malvae) and I think I saw the last Dingy
> Skipper (Erynnis tages) last weekend. :-(
>
> >I have just received a note from David Nash, Ireland's Millennium Count
> >honcho, saying that my patch of Ireland is unexplored. Or anyway
unrecorded.
>
> Great - get out there and chart new waters, so to speak! :-)
>
> >Holly Blue is also a possibility, I suppose, as we have both holly and
> >ivy. Celastrina argiolus.
>
> We have had plenty over here - it doesn't seem to be a 'boom' year for
> them but it certainly isn't a 'bust' year either. We are expecting a
> decline any year now - when the parasite kicks in the population will
> plummet.
>
> Best wishes,
> Chris R.
>