Eating ones study subjects

[Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX]

Well, in case there are those so inclined I would hope that they do not
harvest dry cow plop within the range of Hesperia assiniboia.  This skipper
is known to use such as shelter in its immature stages and I would hate to
see such an obvious need for government regulation go unanswered.  Of course
there are those who would argue that harvesting fresh plop only would
minimize the impact but then others would argue that this would diminish the
supply of dry plop and hence still have a significant negative impact on the
skipper.  Can I get a government grant to collect some data on this and then
a cushy job to oversee the regulations ???  -note the big smiley and save
the flames :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Mikula [mailto:butrfly at epix.net]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 1:07 PM
To: Lepidoptera List
Subject: Re: Eating ones study subjects




Michael Gochfeld wrote:
>.... Some researcher who collected often chowed-down repeatedly and with
apparent relish.......
> Mike Gochfeld

The first thing that comes to mind is a natural history museum display
that I had once visited which specialized in a very large collection of
North American animal scat.   Perhaps we should not speculate to guess
here.

R. Mikula