BUTTERFLYS FALL IN FLANDERS FIELDS

Grkovich, Alex agrkovich at tmpeng.com
Mon Jul 16 08:29:10 EDT 2001


See comments below. My wife and I were in the Loire valley and then in
Bosnia for two weeks kast September. I'll give a complete species list
later.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Guy_VdP at t-online.de [SMTP:Guy_VdP at t-online.de]
> Sent:	Saturday, July 14, 2001 4:50 AM
> To:	Leps-List; rjparcelles at yahoo.com
> Subject:	Re: BUTTERFLYS FALL IN FLANDERS FIELDS
> 
> 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
	  
	I found both of these species in the Loire Valley, for example near
Chinon Castle. (AG)

> 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:-)
> >
> >I THOUGHT THIS MIGHT BE OF INTEREST.
> >
> >Bob Parcelles Jr.
> >Pinellas Park, FL
> >
> >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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> > "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
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