photos of urban Monarchs overwintering in Calif.

[Anne Kilmer]

true, true and true again.
It ain't that bad in Florida just now, though ... I've been out watching
the Zebra longwings (Heliconius charitonius) nectaring in the rather
frostbitten coromandel (Asystasia gangetica).
Me, I like biodiversity, and am not reassured by a planet which is a
nice place to be a Monarch.
And, when folks get unrudely (a word I learned from a local) I find that
my delete button works really well. The first screen of such a message
is all I care to look at.
As a parent and teacher, I learned long ago that anything you didn't say
in the first paragraph is just hot air, anyway.
Persuasion happens in the first few lines. After that, you're just
amusing your fans and irritating your enemies.
Nothing wrong with that, if it entertains you ... but, as I say, the
delete button is your friend.
As for the Zebras, they look awfully fresh, just out of the icebox, I
suppose. And there's a big brown skipper, who doesn't care to be perused
more closely, which is all right with me.
I don't do skippers. But, of course, I wish them well.
There is a woodpecker hammering on a Casuarina. And, indoors, the cats
are really charmed by the new frog clock, which makes interesting noises
every so often, but so forth has not brought forth any actual visible
frogs. There is always hope.
Not much hope for real frogs at this time of year, even here. Not much
hope for real frogs in the future either, as pesticides and herbicides
... well, let's not go there. Those who believe are already working to
help, and those who do not believe ... well, you can't create harmonies
with one note, can you.
Cheers
Anne Kilmer
South Florida
"Bob Parcelles,Jr." wrote:
>
> --- Mike Quinn <Mike.Quinn at tpwd.state.tx.us> wrote:
> > Most ento folks know that Fiery Skippers and Cabbage
> > Whites are analogous to
> > Pigeons and English Sparrows. The fact that they are
> > common everywhere only
> > proves that they are exceedingly adaptable and has
> > little to do with the
> > effects of turf management practices. Given exposure
> > over enough
> > generations, House Flies can probably subsist on a
> > diet of pure DDT.
> >
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> > Mike Quinn
> > Invertebrate Biologist
> > Wildlife Diversity Branch
> > Texas Parks & Wildlife
> > 3000 IH 35 South, Suite 100, Austin, Texas 78704
> > Ph/Fax: 512/912-7059, -7058
> > mike.quinn at tpwd.state.tx.us
> > http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/
> _______________________________________________________
>
> Bravo,
>
> A truly rational, non-flaming post!
>
> Perhaps, we need more input from NABA types (minus the
> anti-collecting activists) to get our list back int a
> little bit more science and natural history.  This is
> not the forum to debunk constantly professionals like
> Brower and even Paul Cherbuni.  Our British friend
> Neil does keep us straight.
>
> Have a great day day,
>
> Bob Parcelles, Jr.
> Pineelas Park, FL
>
> Writing from Grand Bahama (eat your heart out)
>
> =====
> Bob Parcelles, Jr
> Pinellas Park, FL
> RJP Associates
> "Ecology is the Economics of Nature; Economics is the Ecology of Man"...Dr. Marston Bates (1962)
> rjparcelles at yahoo.com
> http://rainforest.care2.com/welcome?w=976131876
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