Finland in June

[Jaakko Kullberg]

"Rchees6057" <rchees6057 at aol.com> wrote in message
news:20010331103329.08933.00001874 at ng-mo1.aol.com...
> An old story, almost certainly apocryphal:
>
> An English lepidopterist, collecting moths in Finland, became so annoyed
and
> frustrated with the vast swarms of flies buzzing round his head that he
made a
> great sweep with his net, bottled up everything he had caught and sent the
> catch to the British Museum for identification.
> He was later informed that he had seven species new to science!
>
> (End of story)
>
> You don't have to believe the story; just be prepared for the flies!
>
Hi!

"a great sweep" means what? Old story = 200 years ago?

Flies are not rare in Finland, but I suppose that mosquitos may be more
problematic especially in the north where all fancy bog and arctic species
fly. With "a great sweep" you can collect millions of them, but you may do
it easier and just to keep door open and collect a nice catch of females on
windows (with all the blood you had). There may be even seven species of
them ...

For an English butterfly and moth collector Finland is an exotic country.
Many eastern "rarities" are common aswell as bog and arctic species. If you
look national lists or European list you see quite strange species in the
list. As finns are eager to collect with light traps are many long-distance
migrants and rare vagrants from the east are regularly trapped. So, the
Finnish list is often very promising comparing to that what is really
possible to find. Collecting with net is ok everywhere except in normal
conservation areas, protected species are listed from internet pages via
yahoo etc.

jaska





 
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