Lorquin NeTwork (Nov 2001 issue)

Wed Dec 5 19:49:21 EST 2001

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Hello.

I don't know where you got the idea that I was some website guru, but
this is totally off-base.  Besides, my name is not spelled "Plausoles"
but "Plauzoles" -- OK, the "S" and "Z" are close enough together on the
keyboard that it could be an honest typo, but the write-up still remains
off target and incorrect.  I will get back to you on this later when I
have time to read the article at more leisure.

On another subject, I would appreciate your mentioning the fact that all
of us should be compliling our field notes.  Hoarding them so that noone
sees them is not fair to others who do research in the field, and it is
even less fair to the bugs whose fate we are attempting to alter for the
better.  I have several dozen files, some to which I am adding data
regularly, others being more single-trip files than anything else.  Am I
the only one who is contributing to the database?  I hope not.  Also, I
would hope that we are all using a format that is conducive to being
re-compiled (should the need arise) in a standardized format so that the
researcher consulting the database can more easily find what he/she is
searching for and understand it more easily as well.

Since it looks like I will be in Bakersfield with Kathleen (she is doing
the Nutcracker performances with the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, and
rehearsals are this week and performances this weekend), I will not be
at the meeting; I would therefore appreciate something else being said
about field trips: since several of us do go into the field and do
biodiversity inventory work ("You know -- "the more people participate
and the more trips we have, the more fun it is for everyone involved")
but I can't be at this month's meeting, could someone else mention it so
that everyone knows about it?

One more thing that I was not aware of at all has cropped up about this
subject late last month.  Someone told me that "entomologists avoid
Imperial County like the plague" when doing biodiversity inventory
work.  Is this because of the heat, or is there some other problem at
work here?  Can you provide an explanation?  I was in the area between
Calipatria and Mullet Island [southeast end of Salton Sea] around
mid-November and saw many small moths -- one to two inches in wingspread
-- at my headlights.  Not being a "micro" person, and not having the
time to do any biodiversity inventory work that day (and not expecting
anything of interest to boot due to the weather), I did not work the
area from that viewpoint.

Thank you.

Pierre

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Hello.
I don't know where you got the idea that I was some website guru, but
this is totally off-base.&nbsp; Besides, my name is not spelled "Plausoles"
but "Plauzoles" -- OK, the "S" and "Z" are close enough together on the
keyboard that it could be an honest typo, but the write-up still remains
off target and incorrect.&nbsp; I will get back to you on this later when
I have time to read the article at more leisure.
On another subject, I would appreciate your mentioning the fact that
all of us should be compliling our
field notes.&nbsp; Hoarding them so that noone sees them is not fair to
others who do research in the field, and it is even less fair to the bugs
whose fate we are attempting to alter for the better.&nbsp; I have several
dozen files, some to which I am adding data regularly, others being more
single-trip files than anything else.&nbsp; Am I the only one who is contributing
to the database?&nbsp; I hope not.&nbsp; Also, I would hope that we are
all using a format that is conducive to being re-compiled (should the need
arise) in a standardized format so that the researcher consulting the database
can more easily find what he/she is searching for and understand it more
easily as well.
Since it looks like I will be in Bakersfield with Kathleen (she is doing
the Nutcracker performances with the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, and
rehearsals are this week and performances this weekend), I will not be
at the meeting; I would therefore appreciate something else being said
about field trips: since several of us do go into the field and do biodiversity
inventory work ("You know -- "the more people participate and the more
trips we have, the more fun it is for everyone involved") but I can't be
at this month's meeting, could someone else mention it so that everyone
knows about it?
One more thing that I was not aware of at all has cropped up about this
subject late last month.&nbsp; Someone told me that "entomologists avoid
Imperial County like the plague" when doing biodiversity inventory work.&nbsp;
Is this because of the heat, or is there some other problem at work here?&nbsp;
Can you provide an explanation?&nbsp; I was in the area between Calipatria
and Mullet Island [southeast end of Salton Sea] around mid-November and
saw many small moths -- one to two inches in wingspread -- at my headlights.&nbsp;
Not being a "micro" person, and not having the time to do any biodiversity
inventory work that day (and not expecting anything of interest to boot
due to the weather), I did not work the area from that viewpoint.
Thank you.
Pierre
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