What is a lepidopterist?

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Great question. I think you'd have to leave off the term "pro" else you'd be
excluding Leroy, Vernon Brou, et. al., who do not do this for a living.

Jim Taylor
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From: "Rudy Benavides" <rbenavid at hotmail.com>
To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:38 AM
Subject: What is a lepidopterist?


> What is a lepidopterist (in 2002)?  With all the recent postings
concerning
> netting, collecting, watching,  etc., I have been wondering how folks here
> might answer that question.  I received an email response to an earlier
post
> of mine about "butterfly watchers and lepidopterists" in which the poster
> said that "years ago we were all the same", there were no distinctions.
But
> now, with a growing segment of the butterfly community involved in more
> passive butterflying (with binoculars), does that change the meaning or
use
> of the word lepidopterist?  By the way, this is not intended to poke fun
or
> ridicule anyone.  I am just wondering if there will come a time in the
near
> future when the distinction will be made...just like what happened in the
> birding community... there are birders and there are ornithologists.  I
> personally know scores of birders, but I only know a handful of
> ornithologists.  I also have my own definition of a lepidopterist (a pro,
> someone that does research, publishes, etc.)...but that's just my opinion.
>
> So is a lepidopterist just anyone with an interest in butterflies/moths?
Or
> is there more to it than that?
>
> Rudy
>
>
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