BUTTERFLYS FALL IN FLANDERS FIELDS

Sat Jul 14 04:49:34 EDT 2001

Two examples about nature conservation in Flanders:

Our largest wood: 30 km long and whopping 30 *m* large: the
(never-completed) central section of the freeway Brussels-Antwerp.

Flemish way of protecting the woods: just build a new freeway which crosses
a wood, than you have two woods ...

List of *all* the butterfly species of the village I grew up in (Tisselt,
near Mechelen):

Pieris brassicae (rare)
Pieris rapae
Pieris napi

Araschnia levana
Inachis io
Aglais urticae
Polygonia c-album
Vanessa atalanta

Pararge aegeria

Two species I found about 20 years ago, no longer seen the last couple of
years:

Lasiommata megera
Polyommatus icarus

Those are normally ubiquitists, and maybe I just overlooked them.

If you want to see how the rest of the world will look like in some years,
visit Flanders !!!
(and don't be fooled: it does look very green, though very monotonous)
And you should understand that the butterflies are merely indicators.

Guy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Parcelles,Jr. <rjparcelles at yahoo.com>
To: Leps-List <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>; LEPSrUS <LEPSrUS at listbot.com>
Cc: Don Stillwaugh <Blandingi at aol.com>
Date: woensdag 27 juni 2001 1:02
Subject: BUTTERFLYS FALL IN FLANDERS FIELDS

>GREETINGS:-)
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>I THOUGHT THIS MIGHT BE OF INTEREST.
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>Bob Parcelles Jr.
>Pinellas Park, FL
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>BUTTERFLIES FALL IN FLANDERS FIELDS
>Northern Belgium is the European hot spot for
>butterfly extinction.
>21 June 2001
>http://www.nature.com/nsu/010621/010621-11.html
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>Pinellas Park, FL
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> "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
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